Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by notahacker on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:29PM (#26084416)

A proposal which amounts to making it 'illegal and expensive' for an internet platform to do any kind of moderation other than the process mandated by US copyright law sounds like a far more grotesque imposition on the internet than anything the most aggressive copyright lawyers have proposed.

The status quo where YouTube is full of voluntarily uploaded material by rightsholders, other videos featuring their songs (for which the rightsholders get compensated) and even some cover bands getting revenue share, and most copyright-struck videos just get demonetised sounds a lot better than the RIAA simply trying to get everything taken down.

Judging by the amount of unofficial Santeria videos on YouTube, I don't think anyone would struggle to publish cop videos with Sublime playing in the background on there anyway.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by jedberg on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:55PM (#26084591)

I have to disagree. Making the platform completely indemnified if they take no action and putting all the responsibility on the rights holders would be great for the internet. It would suck for the rights holders, but I'm ok with that, and I think most people would be.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by jakelazaroff on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:37PM (#26085183)

I think you’d just see the shoe on the other foot, with giant companies exploiting the work of smaller creators who are left with little recourse.

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