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Scammers convince Google owned Youtube and steals your music
Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other people’s music was their own. They successfully stole $23 million [https://mashable.com/article/youtube-copyright-royalties-heist] before they were caught.
No one knows how common this scam is, and how much money total is being stolen in this way. Presumably this is not an uncommon fraud.
While the size of the heist and the breadth of the scheme may be very unique, it’s certainly a situation that many YouTube content creators have faced before. YouTube’s Content ID system, meant to help creators, has been weaponized by bad faith actors in order to make money off content that isn’t theirs. While some false claims are just mistakes caused by automated systems, the MediaMuv case is a perfect example of how fraudsters are also purposefully taking advantage of digital copyright rules.
GOOGLE OWNS YOUTUBE!
the largest royalty theft in YouTube’s history
MediaMuv Principals Charged with Stealing Millions in Music Royalties from 2016 to the present, Teran and Batista used fraudulent pretenses and made false representations to collect over $20 million in royalty payments for music that was monetized through a third-party company. Through their company MediaMuv, Teran and Batista allegedly first claimed they had the legal right to monetize over 50,000+ songs on February 13, 2017.
YouTube attempts to be cautious with who it provides CMS and Content ID tool access because of how powerful these systems are. As a result, independent creators and artists cannot check for these false copyright claims nor do they have the power to directly act on them. They need to go through a digital rights management company that does have access. And it seems like thieves are doing the same, falsifying documents to gain access to these YouTube tools through these third parties that are “trusted” with these tools by YouTube.
youTube previously said that it paid $5.5 billion in ad revenue to rightsholders from content claimed and monetized through Content ID
but the system doesn’t always work exactly as planned.
THAT’S THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR@!!@!@