i thought classical compositions were public domain? bach off, sony.
How is this even related to EU
Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.
This is the story here
muh euroskepticism eu is an evil globalist organisation replacing whites with the hip new shade of brown
Copyright is more important than your right to discover your cultural heritage. This isn't an EU problem, this is a capitalism problem. Stop deciding everything in favor of businesses, they least deserve an easier time to make money off commercializing the public domain.
The compositions themselves are public domain, but recordings usually aren't.
According to the guy in the article it made the claim on his own recording though, ffs.
but its ok western nations have such forgiving legal systems that he wont have to pay a single penny to contest it in cou--oh.
I feel like this often gets left out of discussions regarding public domain music- the big record companies do actually legitimately own the rights to modern recordings of the original compositions.
The issue is that the audio recognition algorithms in place throw false positives all the time, since they're much, much better at recognizing melody than they are at recognizing instrumentation, which is apparently what happened here.
How this SHOULD be handled is sites like Youtube should have a library of public domain music and if your submission for content ID overlaps any of the music, that part of the content is excluded from content ID. Of course this will never happen because Youtube is piss-terrified of big corporations suing them and they don't really give a shit about their content creators.
Fuck these big companies. Content ID is just another way to exploit upcoming artists and earn more money , fuck all of it is to do with protecting artists.
Google should grow a goddamn spine about this. All the big tech companies should. Why are they so afraid of treading on the toes of the very corporations they've made obsolete?
Christ, imagine if Apple actually made themselves useful and threw some of their lawyer power and massive net worth around; RIAA/MPAA lobbyists would be powerless practically overnight.
The free market everyone.
Capitalism is the bane of every creative industry.
It'd basically all be indie games, if you're talking about without capitalism. We can't have an AAA games industry without game budget. Hell, even the majority of indie games would be gone. All that'd be left is passion projects like Cave Story and Spelunky, which exist anyways.
I'd be fine with even so much as every game company just being privately-owned. Sure, that's not immune to corruption either - look at Valve - but it'd be a damn sight better than Wall Street drones latching onto the latest trend and declaring that they call the shots now.
This wouldn't work. As I said, the music itself no longer falls under copyright, but recordings do. The problem is algorithms cannot differentiate recordings from different artists that sound similar.
I'm fairly sure there's more than enough privately-owned patent trolls, for comparison, so that wouldn't really help in my eyes.
What we'd really need is Helix Snake's public domain catalogue idea being written into law and some government institution defending it (for profit. No reason not to make it costly for companies to issue false claims).
Relying on black box algorithms to do all the work for us was a fucking mistake and I hate Silicon Valley for promulgating this lazy mindset.
Solutions that scale are cheap. Also, the volume on these kind of operations are literally not able to be handled by human beings. It's simply way too much work. In 2017, Facebook had to take down 2,776,665 pieces of content from copyright complaints, 222,226 pieces of content from trademark requests, and 459,176 posts reported for counter-fitting. That's 3.5 *MILLION* pieces of content removed. Those aren't numbers that can reasonably be met by employees.
Look at this growth chart
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/249570/b1c4cfd1-8c54-4835-b37c-ecf206ac4876/image.png
Are they just supposed to exponentially hire more people?
I agree, but over-reliance on them leads to situations like that in the OP. Unfortunately hubris prevents a lot of Silicon Valley types from understanding their limitations.
The reason is unfortunately simple: once you've already bent the knee, you are at an advantage over people who haven't. The same thing happened with netflix, they fought net neutrality tooth and nail, comcast, verizon and friends continued throttling them for a long time, until the day netflix paid them, then all bandwidth problems vansihed over night.nNw netflix is anti-net neutrality, because they already have the deals in place and their competition doesnt.
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