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Here's how copyright laws can be dangerous. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A malicious law enformement officer or a criminal can exploit copyright laws to prevent criminal activities to be posted on mainstream platforms. Read the article for a real life example.

No matter your stance on copyright laws, I think we can all agree there needs to be an exemption to copyright laws where if a video or audio recording contains copyrighted material but also contains unrelated content (like police violence or other criminal activity), then that should be exempt from copyright laws. Beside, who wants to listen to music that also has a cop screeching in the background, therefore, this wouldn't affect music subscriptions services in any way.

Even with such law, I don't have hopes of youtube changing their policies. I'm honestly sad for the future.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the reason why YouTube overregulates is because of how massive their service is. They couldn't pay lawyers to check every single video, and they can't take risks of copyright infringement.

Do you have any proposed solution? It just seems like Youtube's nature make this a very hard problem to solve, it's not a copyright thing itself. I really can't imagine a solution. Having someone check every claim would be insanely difficult. But removing copyright all together would basically remove all incentive from content creators because anyone can clone their creativity and ideas with zero effort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

'anyone can clone their creativity and ideas with zero effort.' <- This is already happening.

I think a better solution would be for copyright claims to have evidence, rather than just immediately presuming guilt for the accused.

I really have no idea though. There's smarter people than me who have better ideas how this could work.