Re:You can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they ow...
by metafizikal on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:05AM
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Eyeballs, basically. The eyeballs are on YouTube already, so if you want an audience and you're off YouTube, you're fighting an uphill battle.
But classical music, sad to say, largely is a niche pursuit. Niche content can always find a home somewhere and users will seek it out.
And I haven't followed the news closely, but if the EU is indeed going to mandate Content-ID style systems, theoretically these niche sites that don't have one will be under some level of legal and regulatory exposure? Not quite sure how any of that would work in practice.
But classical music, sad to say, largely is a niche pursuit. Niche content can always find a home somewhere and users will seek it out.
And I haven't followed the news closely, but if the EU is indeed going to mandate Content-ID style systems, theoretically these niche sites that don't have one will be under some level of legal and regulatory exposure? Not quite sure how any of that would work in practice.