Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jackvalentine 1443 days ago
The thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them.

An actual DMCA compliant process is much more user friendly - https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...

1 comments

>The thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them.

That's the plan I think. In another ten, twenty years or so who is going to remember the law as written over the way that it has been interpreted? This has been an end-run around the law from the beginning.