Since practically its launch in February 2005, YouTube has been “the web” where any user upload any type of video. Artists also uploaded their work to web videos that Google purchased little less than two years after its launch and there are even some who have come to fame thanks to YouTube, as Lindsey Stirling or, even more known, Justin Bieber, but now the artists call for changes in Copyright law to prevent YouTube box with their jobs unless they pay them fairly.
The law 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act protects websites that host potentially illegal third-party material, so it is difficult to force them to remove such content. The current law is vulnerable to abuses, especially for the DMCA bots: in March, Google said that it was managing 75 million DMCA requests each month only for searches, which contrasts with the 8 receiving a month at the beginning of the years 2000. If the law is changed and copyright enforcement becomes more strict, its influence could spread throughout Internet.
Artists want to YouTube to pay them more to offer his works
James Grimmelmann, Professor of law at the University of Mayland, told the New York Times that “will affect the blogs. It will affect sites of fans. It will affect sites for creators of games and documentalists and all classes“.” On the other hand, people like the Chief Executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, Cary Sherman said that the DMCA allows “a new form of piracy“ because the songs copyrighted that is removed can be easily upload.
The problem is so widespread that once Taylor Swift released her latest album “1989”, Universal Music formed a full-time team so not to do anything more to find unauthorized copies who sent requests for about 66,000 copies withdrew. For its part, YouTube says that the ContentID system is doing a good job allowing Copyright owners to keep track of its contents, with a 99.5% of copyright requests made through the system.
With the launch of Apple Music, reproductions of streaming music to increased considerably. Indeed, there are many millions of users who have subscribed to Spotify in the past 10 months, so the ultimate goal of the artists is YouTube, video platform that has been accused on many occasions very little pay to performers, owners of the content that is offered. The only thing I can say is that I hope the hardest not be those of always: users.
