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October 8, 2007 |

YouTube creates its own copyright paradox

By Jonathan Schlaffer





YouTube creates its own copyright paradoxYouTube would like to believe it is a bastion of copyright law and defenders of copyright holders but most of the world knows that isn’t true.  When was the last time you or someone you know visited YouTube and watched original works that were not copyrighted?

Coding Horror has taken a look at YouTube, its disclaimers and the copyright tips page.  It becomes clear that YouTube is just one huge paradox.

The article does take a deeper look into the matter which I’m not going to cover here.  The basic idea is that YouTube allows just about any upload that you can speak of and will only remove copyrighted content if the holder of said copyright complains about it.

I don’t know how much of the material on YouTube is copyrighted or not, it has only been around for two years but it is safe to say that a majority of the material available is copyrighted, Coding Horror puts the figure around 90% but that’s hardly scientific.

Whatever the case is, anything actually worth watching on YouTube is copyrighted and that’s just the way things are.

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    One Response to “YouTube creates its own copyright paradox”

    1. George Gardner:

      And that’s the way the cookie crumbles. :)

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