YouTube (Still) Has a Copyright Problem

By: Jake Plovanic The new year started with an old problem for the vaunted video platform YouTube. In January, a spate of copyright-related conflicts between content creators and purported rights-holders grabbed headlines across the Internet, causing a few minor dustups in related communities on Reddit. The driver of the controversy was that actual copyright infringement had not occurred. Instead, false, mistaken, or otherwise improper claims of infringement threatened several YouTube channels. First came a report that YouTube’s automated Content ID audio rights service made a copyright claim against a user’s own voice. Then the following week a fan-made Star Wars movie, ostensibly created with permission from Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm, received a copyright claim against a portion of its soundtrack. The very next day a series of K-pop music videos were temporarily removed from YouTube following an improper takedown request based on allegedly false copyright…

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