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

Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by bawolff on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:24AM (#26085959)

IANAL, but there are penalties for filing a false DMCA notice already. Almost never happens, but it exists.

> This would allow Google/Facebook/et al to change their tools from automatic takedown to reporting the violation to the copyright holder,

Is there anything stopping them from doing that now? I was under the impression that the current system was something google chose, not something forced on them by law. Like they have to respond to take down notices, but the content-id thing was something they chose themselves.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by vidarh on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:50AM (#26086888)

By encouraging the use of non-DMCA notices by providing increased ability, above and beyond the DMCA, to take content down, they reduce the legal risk of not properly handling a DMCA notice simply by getting fewer actual DMCA notices.

It's a win-win for Google and the copyright holders, but a loss for everyone else, who loses the (very limited) protection provided by the DMCA process.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by jedberg on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:15AM (#26086162)

The main thing that makes them use the current system is the liability they could incur by not doing it. And because it's cheaper than processing all the DMCA claims.

If they were indemnified by law and even worse liable for penalties if they keep the current system, then they would quickly change it.

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