Washing machine chime #scandal shows how absurd #YouTube #copyright abuse can get
Albino, who is also a popular Twitch #streamer, complained that his YouTube video playing through Fallout was demonetized because a #Samsung washing machine randomly chimed to signal a laundry cycle had finished while he was #streaming.
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Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get
Samsung's catchy end-of-cycle jingle gets caught up in YouTube copyright drama.Ars Technica
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in reply to anonymiss • • •@tomgrzybow@societas.online Heh. :)
I can't speak to Samsung. I can speak to the openly predicted absurdities of the DMCA which our "Senators Disney" passed, what, 24 years ago? I feel like I need to apologize to all the younger generations that my generation wasn't able to stop all that.
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tomgrzybow
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in reply to anonymiss • • •I feel like I need to apologize to all the younger generations that my generation wasn’t able to stop all that.
Myself also. It's like the '60s generation turned around 180.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •It's become ridiculous how the rich steal from the poor.
Samsung stole this song from Schubert in the first place;
and then they put a copyright claim on it???
This is this twisted world where wealth can buy lawyers and therewith bend law to their advantage.
They all do it: Listen to the choir of the song "We are the men in Black"; and then to "Forget Me Nots".
They now steal half songs and if they are rich like Will Smith they can do it.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Of course Samsung in this case is ridiculous and their exploitation of art which can not copyrighted anymore is despicable.
But just to be the devil's advocate:
The problem with everything being free
(from inventions to copyrights etc.)
is that creators need to make a living
and inventors may want to expand on their idea to improve it.
How would you propose to counteract an injust accumulation of wealth in this way?
tomgrzybow
in reply to anonymiss • • •"creators need to make a living"
Sure. Now you tell me who owns the copyrights...
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in reply to anonymiss • • •I genuinely ask, because when I see J.K.Rowling for example I see that she obviously succeeded to manage her copyrights well;
but publishers or record companies can get a huge piece of other's cakes by taking them in.
On the other hand this enables creators to get loans way ahead of time not to have to do other work whilst producing.
tomgrzybow
in reply to anonymiss • • •Do you want to point out that copyrights often are owned by others than the writers or composers?
Often? Almost always.
As for the writers... well there are only about a half dozen publishing houses, and certain writers are brand names (with the name more important than the title), so I suppose these privileged few are treated well.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •I just want to throw in that a friend of mine who had an indy-music label did have to close it down when the mp3 sharing started - so his life as a musician ended due to copyright infringement.
And in the same way I also stopped making music, because there was no hope for me to earn my living with it anymore.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Many creators make a living by working a day job. Reading the bio's of commercially viable creatives I note how many are born to privilege. No surprise there.
Bottom line with very rare historical exceptions USian society is not one that supports pursuits that can't be monetized by a select few.
tomgrzybow
in reply to anonymiss • • •And in the same way I also stopped making music, because there was no hope for me to earn my living with it anymore.
So, practically speaking, copyright is not helping the "citizen creator". I have great sympathy for musicians in particular, because they seem to be the most exploited. But it's a similar situation for writers and even computer programmers... etc.
tomgrzybow
in reply to anonymiss • • •because there was no hope for me to earn my living with it anymore.
I've suggested this to a few people: get together with some others in the same situation and give free concerts. That will be fun. Maybe you can strategically place a hat out.
That said, no one I know has followed-up on my suggestion.
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