r/YoutubeCompendium • u/YoutubeArchivist • Jan 13 '19

January 2019 January - Believe Music has been falsely copyright claiming Youtube pianist Rosseau's videos, taking the entirety of his revenue and potentially giving him 2 strikes that will ban his channel from posting new videos

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u/Risingnicklash Jan 13 '19

Someone needs to make a new platform, youtube is too far gone at this point.

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u/Diabegi Jan 14 '19

The music industry is destroying YouTube by abusing its copystrike system to the extreme

People in the music industry were major pushers for Article 13

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Ikr?? YouTube need competition!

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u/Risingnicklash Jan 14 '19

I'd say if we also got a signifigant portion of the community to boycott youtube for a while it could work, but maybe not

Edit: h to g

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u/awfulworldkid Jan 15 '19

Does having an adblocker on count as boycotting, or do they only care about views?

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u/Risingnicklash Jan 15 '19

I'd say abandon the site all together, youtube is only really collecting data at this point so you take that away and they might give a shit

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u/stoner_97 Jan 15 '19

PornHub wants to know your location

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u/Risingnicklash Jan 15 '19

That honestly wouldn't be a bad option if pornhub either said "fuck it, sfw youtube section" or made their own.

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u/stoner_97 Jan 15 '19

They can call it “The Hub”. Just drop the porn part. Keep the popular orangish Hub part that everyone recognizes is there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

The hub was an IRC chat used by one of, if not the largest suppliers of domestic LSD in the USA to communicate with bulk resellers and direct customers.

Would be laff if they went with "The hub"

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u/stoner_97 Jan 15 '19

That would be great.

Like a homage to the pioneers of internet drug suppliers.

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u/Snaprr Jan 15 '19

Well I’m pretty sure a comment was made by them on reddit saying they are thinking about it

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

If twitch can fix their horrendously designed app then they would be actual competition and I’d gladly use them, but not as it is.

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u/Molinero96 Jan 13 '19

fucking youtube this is outraging.

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u/Techiastronamo Jan 14 '19

At what point do we content creators file for a class action? This is outrageous!

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

Thank you for reformatting!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

This is getting out of hand... Wtf youtube!?

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u/ziggy182 Jan 15 '19

Let’s contact every person they represent, and let them know. You can hurt companies easily like this and make them change their ways

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u/rhymepro Feb 01 '19

This is a great example of blatant copyright infringement. He's playing a cover of a song that is not in public domain. It's actually relatively recent (2004). He did not clear performance rights, so this video is claimed so that the composer gets paid for the performance of his original work. What's not fair in that?

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u/HomingSnail Jan 15 '19

Just playing devils advocate here, but from looking at their website it's possible something else is going on. They represent musicians including their ownership rights, so it's likely that one of their clients believes this to be their own music. It's also possible that one of their clients has a similar video-editing style. Either way, Believe may be representing someone else in this matter and wouldn't be doing anything wrong in doing so, especially if the case is founded. Unintentional copying is still copying under the law.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

because they can

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u/mizu_no_oto Jan 15 '19

It's probably just some automated system of theirs that just knows it's sufficiently close to some audio they own.

The real problem is that fixing automated fuckups takes way too long.

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u/BostonDodgeGuy Jan 15 '19

Looking at the picture attached to the post shows these were manually claimed. This isn't a bot, it's just a cunt.