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Re:On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting ... by acituan on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:41PM (#23277897)
> Nothing in the existing body of law requires them to proactively block copyrighted material from their platform

The fight doesn’t have to take place in the realm of law. At best copyright holders would have sued youtube into oblivion if they didn’t do proactive takedowns. At worst, well considering that Comcast owns both tons of copyrighted property (through Universal Studios) and major telecommunication infrastructure, I can’t imagine how dirty they can play if they had to.

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Re:On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting ... by mullingitover on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:05PM (#23278092)
I think the latter scenario is why Google was so willing to go out of their way to appease the entrenched media conglomerates with their extrajudicial copyright enforcement. They want to get into licensing deals with the media oligopoly, and to do that they had to play ball by going above and far beyond the DMCA.
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