Youtube and Content Creators

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YouTube, owned by Google, is an excellent outlet for modern creativity, allowing video uploaders, known as “content creators” or simply “YouTubers”, to make a living off of their content; such as reviews, parodies, and skits; in the way of ad revenue. Yet, because of YouTube’s new copyright system, Content ID, this outlet and the jobs of the people working for it are in danger; Content ID is a broken system that should be revoked. By automatically scanning videos for even minute amounts of copyrighted content, or allowing copyright holders to mark offending videos themselves, and disabling ad revenue for the content creator (yet not Google or the copyright holder) of the videos, YouTube’s new copyright system causes the content creators YouTube thrives off of to lose their jobs, and it goes against said content creators’ rights.
Since YouTube has a phenomenally large user-base and allows for the monetization of videos using advertisements, it has become a viable job; yet the jobs it has created, it is now destroying. It first does this by not simply warning content creators when copyrighted content is found, but by immediately diverting revenue of the video to only Google and the supposed copyright holder (Tassi). This approach is quite like an officer who, upon pulling over a speeder, takes him immediately to jail, rather than giving him a ticket. By doing this to not only videos with little copyrighted content but with no copyrighted content at all in the way of false positives (Tassi), YouTube is causing many to lose money. Says an expert on the subject, “Whoever is accusing these content creators of copyright violation needs to provide sufficient evidence for their claims rather than this auto-flagging, wide-sweeping algori...

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