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Originally Posted by Timothy B. Lee
Lon Seidman knew he wasn't going to get rich from his three-hour video discussion of the Curiosity rover landing on Mars. The local media entrepreneur did a live Google+ Hangout about the event and posted the resulting video to YouTube, expecting it would earn him a few bucks and attract some new readers to his site, CT Tech Junkie. During the discussion, Seidman played a number of NASA videos about the Curiosity mission. He knew he was on safe ground because works of the federal government are automatically in the public domain.
So he was surprised to find that no fewer than five other media organizations (mostly television stations, including some from overseas) had "claimed" the content of his video through YouTube's Content ID system. It appears that the other media organizations had uploaded their own news broadcasts—which contained the same public domain material—to Content ID's matching system. The fact that Seidman's video used the same content was enough to trigger a content match.
Lon Seidman knew he wasn't going to get rich from his three-hour video discussion of the Curiosity rover landing on Mars. The local media entrepreneur did a live Google+ Hangout about the event and posted the resulting video to YouTube, expecting it would earn him a few bucks and attract some new readers to his site, CT Tech Junkie. During the discussion, Seidman played a number of NASA videos about the Curiosity mission. He knew he was on safe ground because works of the federal government are automatically in the public domain.
So he was surprised to find that no fewer than five other media organizations (mostly television stations, including some from overseas) had "claimed" the content of his video through YouTube's Content ID system. It appears that the other media organizations had uploaded their own news broadcasts—which contained the same public domain material—to Content ID's matching system. The fact that Seidman's video used the same content was enough to trigger a content match.
How YouTube lets content companies "claim" NASA Mars videos
Despicable. And this isn't the first unfairly claimed movie out there, I posted a while back about an official political satire movie that got taken down in similar fashion (taken down for being too political) and there have been many other instances.
In all reality, we need to do something, what I don't know, but something must be done about abuse of copyright!
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