The other bit of important context is that all of the big music labels are in discussions to renew their licensing deals with YouTube. YouTube argues that it generates billions for the music industry (and that pirate sites don’t pay bupkis) and that it has created sophisticated tools that make it easy for music owners to control their works. In short: Musicians and companies that own music are complaining that Google’s video site doesn’t give them enough money for the use of their music, and that YouTube doesn’t give them a real choice about whether and how their music is used.
But like other complaints about the DMCA that the industry has made this year, this one is really about YouTube. Technically, Swift and her co-signers are complaining about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the 1998 law that governs the way big internet companies can use material uploaded by their users. Swift is one of dozens of musicians who have attached their names to an open letter to Congress calling on lawmakers to rewrite legislation used by YouTube and other big web platforms that they say “threaten the continued viability of songwriters and record artists to survive.”Ī coalition of musicians including Swift and U2, along with industry players and the three big music labels (Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music), has taken out ads featuring the letter in political publications like Politico and the Hill. “This event has shone a light on an underlying problem on the platform: It’s 2022, and there are countless smaller creators out there, many of which engaged in this discussion, that continue to be hit daily by these false claims on both videos and livestreams,” Lofi Girl wrote in a tweet.The music industry is ratcheting up its fight against YouTube. Lofi Girl noted that an accidental takedown in 2020 also took the account offline, and called for a stronger vetting process for DMCA claims at YouTube.
Game creater Bungie decided to take one creator to court after they allegedly filed nearly 100 fake copyright claims. Malicious copyright strikes are hardly a new incident on YouTube. What gives them the right to take down the best channel on youtube,” wrote the user. Now their livestreams can't be accessed in Malaysia. “For context, I was studying while listening to lofi girl before both of their streams got taken down by a certain FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. In a Reddit thread on r/Malaysia entitled, “Who the hell is FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia and why did they copywrite strike lofi girl?”, a despondent fan urged others to “make some noise” on the record label’s socials. In an ironic twist, Lofi Girl also has a considerable Malaysian fanbase, who were also quite unhappy about the channel’s removal. Most of Lofi Girl’s largely Gen-Z and younger Millennial fanbase rely on the music to study, relax or meditate. The relatively unknown record label was hit hard with online abuse over the weekend, as fans of Lofi Girl flocked to its social media channels and demanded to know why it filed the fake claim. Its YouTube account has since returned back online. The record label said that it reported the incident to Google. A spokesperson from the label told local news site Malaysiakini that hackers broke into its YouTube account to file the copyright infringement claim.
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Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.īut FMC Music is alleging that it is also a victim in this affair. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. “Confirmed the takedown requests were abusive & terminated the claimants account 😔 we've resolved the strikes + reinstated your vids – it can sometimes take 24-48 hours for everything to be back to normal! so sorry this happened & thx for your patience as we sorted it out,” wrote YouTube on Twitter, in response to Lofi Girl’s request on Monday that the streams be reinstated. After receiving a counterclaim from the creators of Lofi Girl, YouTube manually reviewed FMC’s complaint and came to the conclusion that the record label had no ownership over the music. The origin of the DMCA claims came from FMC Music, a Malaysian record label. In a tweet, the owner of the Lofi Girl channel - which has been streaming relaxing ambient music since 2017 - announced that the streams have relaunched after a nearly 48-hour hiatus. A much-loved YouTube account featuring calm hip-hop beats is back online today, after two popular radio live streams (the oldest of which has been playing non-stop for two years) got yanked from the platform due to bogus copyright claims.
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