They pay them quite a lot. Youtube allows rights holders to put ads on content that's theirs and collect the money from them instead of having them taken down, if they want to.
This is nothing more than another swipe at fair use. Automated systems cannot tell the difference between a full on illegal copy and a portion of something used for criticism and commentary. Todd Todd On Mar 30, 2017 5:50 PM, "James Heilman" <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <dger...@gmail.com> 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
