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Easy and stupid solution: Make it illegal to falsely claim copyright on a piece of media and additionally make transparent and fair processes around Notice&Takedown required for all larger platforms.

Youtube's DMCA mechanism is a black box, you get told you did some bad and you can say "no I didn't do bad" at which point the black box will do things and after a few days agree or not.

If someone files a copyright claim on my video I want to know who did it, why they did it, what they expect as a resolution and if the claims turn out to be false more than three times, ban them from claiming already uploaded videos of mine or even future videos.

There needs to be hurtful punishment for abusing these processes but there isn't so lots of media corporations abuse it without end.




Powerful entities are getting less and less liable to the public every day. And it's mostly because of us: we don't make them pay any mistake, so they carry on as long as it profit them.

Google is not your friend. It's a for profit company that protect its interests.

Basically, they won't do anything because:

- they don't care. They never did. They used to pretend they did when they were not the leader. Now they are.

- they won't gain anything from changing the status quo.

- they won't lose anything because of it. You content is just a tiny small drop in the sea, and they own the biggest and most popular ocean. And the fish never rebels.


Why can't a for profit company that protects its interests be my friend?


It can. It's just not the case with google, as they proved again and again in the last 5 years.


> Make it illegal to falsely claim copyright on a piece of media and additionally make transparent and fair processes around Notice&Takedown required for all larger platforms.

I wouldn't be surprised if those things are already illegal, but enforcing them turns out to be too hard. Laws you can't enforce are meaningless.


It is illegal if you did it maliciously (IIRC from the DMCA texts), but good luck trying to prove to a court that the DMCA notice was filed with malicious intent.


Youtube takedowns are not DMCA notices. They created a paralell private system, it's not due process.




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