Youtube does pay the music industry though? From what I understand torrents were doing in the music on CD industry and that Youtube saved them in part as they get a cut of the advertising on the videos.
J On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 5:26 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > A study claiming that YouTube costs them ONE BEEEELION DOLLARS a year, > by having DMCA safe harbours! > > writeup: https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-helps-youtube-avoid-up-to-1bn- > in-royalties-per-year-study-claims-170330/ > study: http://www.phoenix-center.org/PolicyBulletin/PCPB41Final.pdf > > The conceit here is the music industry claiming that YouTube should > pay them money that they literally know YouTube isn't taking in, on an > assured basis as they do with Spotify. > > They have been smart enough to explicitly name Wikipedia as the sort > of organisation they don't want to hurt. Wikimedians, of course, know > better than to trust the IP industry with anything. This "study" is > getting hyped in the industry press today; if it comes to anything, it > *may* be worth Wikimedia commenting. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
