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Music Technology Policy

News from the Goolag Since 2006 ~ A survival guide to the creative apocalypse: We follow issues and opinion important to professional creators. Data is the new exposure.

Tag: Content ID

Written by Chris CastleJuly 1, 2020July 5, 2020

The Royal Scam: Content ID and Google’s Massive Profits From Piracy and Crime

If Congress wants to fix the DMCA, Congress needs to fix Google’s scam operations, too.

Written by Chris CastleMarch 29, 2019March 29, 2019

The Ennui of Learned Helplessness: Article 13 and the Five Lies in YouTube’s Content ID

According to Wired (“Don’t believe the hype: Article 13 is great news for YouTube“), YouTube is positioned to be a big winner due to the Article 13 requirement for “upload filters”.  If you’re keeping your brackets for “Most Googlely Journalist” in the post-Article 13 March Madness spin, Wired gets the three point play on this […]

Written by Chris CastleJuly 31, 2016July 31, 2016

Guest Post by @schneidermaria: Content ID is Still Just Piracy in Disguise: An Open Letter to Rightsholders and a Music Industry Ready to Renegotiate with a Monster

Grammy-winning artist Maria Schneider lays bear the fallacies of YouTube’s Content ID and why YouTube violates the DMCA by interfering with “standard technical measures”.

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