[jasonjayr]

https://twitter.com/hyperionrecords/status/11623845149849477...

From @hyperionrecords regarding a recent unrelated incident. Hyperion's content is the one making the claim against Rousseau's video.

They seem aware that ContentID often misidentifies claims, but there doesn't seem to be a public statement on what they proactively can or will do to help fix it.

[crankylinuxuser]

The usual canard is:

Google is a private Corp and can do whatever the hell they want.

The real problem is that tech companies are monopolies and oligopolies and they hide behind "The people can just leave if they want".

The end result is that monopolies beget and work with other monopolies to strengthen each other. So we see YouTube working with RIAA and MPAA on non-DMCA underhandedness and what is clearly fair use (car driving by with 2s of a tune).

[lotsofpulp]

I think the real problem is no one (or not enough people) want to pay for a service that hosts user uploaded video, filters each and every one accurately for illegal/copyrighted content, and then is able to serve it worldwide 24/7 instantaneously.

That’s the reason I think no alternative service has sprouted up.

[TeMPOraL]

That's just another reason to consider advertising-funded services as fundamentally anticompetitive and get rid of them.

[crankylinuxuser]

We had a policy for that built into the DMCA. It was a procedure that copyright holders could send an email and go through a process of attestation and rebuttal.

Google shortcutted that by working with music and movie studios and made a ML version that bypasses the DMCA. The harm is caused to everyone not represented by a major media company.

In the end, I have no due process afforded to me by the DMCA because Google bypassed it for cronyism.

[lotsofpulp]

And enough people aren’t willing to pay for the people receiving that email.

Nothing stopping anyone else from starting a similar service as YouTube that offers that kind of service, other than lack of money to burn.

[fireattack]

I'm not sure what to fix.

Let's give the benefit of the doubt to Google and say they're constantly revising their algorithms; even then, due to the sheer amount of video uploaded to YouTube every day, there will be some of them that are misidentified, it's simply unavoidable IMHO.

I think the improvement can be made on the smoothness and speed of disputing/reviewing these claim, though. This process should be as short and painless as possible, for sure.

In OP's case, considering it only seems to be a couple of hours, I think everything is still OK-ish at this point.

[jasonjayr]

I didn't notice the timeline of the OP's post, but they could pressure Youtube to implement something that requires manual review before action is taken, instead of automatic action. Especially with a genre that typically has lots of similar recordings of out-of-copyright compositions.

[wbl]

It's an entire genre that ContentID is incompatible with.