YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by Silhouette on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:27AM (#17344456)

Merely attempting to enforce a copyright that you legitimately hold against one instance that might be fair use, and then having a court find in a real case that it was fair use, would be enough to lose copyright of the work entirely in your view?

That's so disproportionate that you might as well just abolish copyright.

Also, most of the world doesn't have fair use like the US does, though many places have similar but weaker provisions in some respects. US fair use law is somewhat controversial, because it arguably doesn't comply with international obligations.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by c4h8o3del on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @09:54AM (#17355319)

> That's so disproportionate that you might as well just abolish copyright.

Ideally that's what we would do.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by Silhouette on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:57PM (#17358543)

Maybe one day we will, but first someone had better come up with another economic model that demonstrably supports creation and distribution of new works anything like as effectively as copyright has. There are a few ideas with potential, mostly in specific niches, but no-one has come anywhere close to reaching that goal in the general case yet.

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