- Can't identify when the user is the actual copyright holder who the accuser licensed the content from.
These automated systems are always going to have lots of false positives because they only know as much about the copyright status of a work as they have been told. The data entry process that drives them is inevitably going to be incomplete and error prone.
Copyright enforcement in the digital age is a hard problem that I've not seen a clear solution for. The legal system around copyright that exists today is not scalable enough to handle the volume of works being produced and distributed. It's not clear what sort of system could ever hope to handle the rate of disputes coming from a site like Youtube in a judicious and economical fashion.
- Can't identify when the user is the actual copyright holder who the accuser licensed the content from.
These automated systems are always going to have lots of false positives because they only know as much about the copyright status of a work as they have been told. The data entry process that drives them is inevitably going to be incomplete and error prone.
Copyright enforcement in the digital age is a hard problem that I've not seen a clear solution for. The legal system around copyright that exists today is not scalable enough to handle the volume of works being produced and distributed. It's not clear what sort of system could ever hope to handle the rate of disputes coming from a site like Youtube in a judicious and economical fashion.