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by itronitron 531 days ago
Funny how the companies doing the scanning to enforce copyright are also the same ones building generative AI capabilities off the copyrighted data.
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Laws for thee but not for me
Not really, considering the origins of ContentID. It's just the same story over again. Google/YouTube didn't really want to build ContentID. It was a concession as a result of lawsuits from Viacom (and others) from the early days of YouTube, where they were about to be sued out of existence for having a platform, which at the time, was filled with blatantly pirated content.