Sebastian Tomczak, who blogs his fascination with sound and technology at little-scale.blogspot.com, reports that “My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims!”
The culprit appears to be YouTube’s hapless and hostile contentID
system, which automatically matches portions of different videos, makes
stupid conclusions about intellectual property, then invites corporate
customers to “claim” and monetize other people’s work as their own.
Crazy as it is, YouTube is obligated to take down copyright claims or lose its safe harbor status under the dreadful DMCA, so cultural suppression through copyright takedown is not a surprise…. well, unless you’r Ajit Pai. He and his friends at The Daily Caller were very surprised indeed.
