Tag: content id

Artist and composer Maria Schneider has criticised YouTube publicly several times in the past. For example this open letter in 2016 calling the service “a resounding disaster” for musicians; and this piece...

Last week, we reported that Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ had been turned into a Fortnite emote – one of the dances that players can perform in-game to celebrate or goad opponents. This emote included...

The news that YouTube is making changes to the way its copyright-claims process works for music used in videos sounds like big news, but the caveat in this case is that the changes apply to ‘manual’ claims. That’s as...

YouTube’s Content ID copyright-protection system has long been a target of criticism not from music rightsholders, but from ‘creators’ on the platform. Now YouTube is making a change that it hopes will tackle the issues...

MEP Julia Reda is a long-term critic of the music industry, which isn’t surprising given her Pirate Party affiliation. Yet in her latest blog post about Article 13, YouTube is also in her sights. “Make no mistake: YouTube...

We’ve covered the ‘value gap’ debate regularly and emphasised that it’s a slow-burning issue in terms of policymakers deciding how to modernise safe-harbour regulations in the US and in Europe alike. On the latter...

YouTube influencer Hank Green made headlines in May with his criticism of Irving Azoff – and by extension music rightsholders generally – over this year’s rows over YouTube’s music royalties.

YouTube has been defending its Content ID system following criticism of its anti-infringement tool in recent submissions to the US Copyright Office by the three major labels. It represents the latest front in the war of...

An unnamed independent label has shared a year’s worth of YouTube Content ID income with artist-rights blog The Trichordist. It reveals income of $29.8k from 79.7m total plays – that’s user-uploaded videos featuring...

British artist Dan Bull made his name rapping about everything from games to the Digital Economy Act. He’s just reached 1m subscribers on YouTube, but in an interview published by Tubefilter celebrating the milestone,...

Last week, we reported on lawsuits filed by YouTube multi-channel networks Machinima and Collective Digital Studio against music firm Freeplay alleging “bait and switch” licensing policies. Now Freeplay has fired back...

Earlier this summer, Ultra Records and its publishing division sued YouTube star Michelle Phan for copyright infringement, claiming that she’d been using its music in her popular videos without a licence. Now Phan has...