Music Composer Wins over Youtube ID rights management

Court upholds composer’s copyright case against YouTube

A copyright case brought by Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider against YouTube can proceed, US District Judge James Donato ruled, rejecting the video site’s push to dismiss the case. Schneider contends that YouTube’s copyright protection system only serves major studios and labels, leaving smaller producers with little recourse when their work is used without permission.

Maria Schneider criticises YouTube’s repeat infringer policies in ongoing Content ID litigation
Lawyers working for musician Maria Schneider have claimed that YouTube’s policies for dealing with repeat infringers on its platform are insufficient for the Google video site to enjoy safe harbour protection. That claim has been made in Schneider’s ongoing legal action over who has access to YouTube’s Content ID rights management tools.

Schneider teamed up with Pirate Monitor – an anti-piracy firm which, it turned out, was basically a front for film director Gábor Csupó – to sue YouTube last year. The lawsuit argued that, while YouTube’s Content ID system is pretty good at helping rights-owners find and deal with any videos on the site that contain their content without permission, too few creators and rights-owners have access to it.
Anyone who doesn’t qualify for access – which includes most independent creators – must manually monitor the video site for unlicensed uses of their content and then manually issue takedown requests. And whereas Content ID is a sophisticated takedown system, the lawsuit claimed, YouTube’s processes for dealing with manual takedowns are not fit for purpose.

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