Samsung's catchy end-of-cycle jingle gets caught up in YouTube copyright drama.

TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime

The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it’s not permanently banned

IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that’s in the public domain

Also: if it wasn’t that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem

  • winterayarsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Google also lost a court case and had this system forced onto them by the law. I believe it would literally take a change in the dmca (ideally just repeal it or strip all the anti consumer bs out of it) for them to be allowed to do anything different.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The thing is that they’re complying with the court case by letter, but not by spirit. Sure, there is a system to report and remove copyright infringement; but the system is 100% automated, full of fails that would require manual review, and Google can’t be arsed to spend the money necessary to fix it.