Katy Perry's push for new music piracy law reforms
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Katy Perry wants to make it harder to pirate music online. The musician asked lawmakers to make “drastic reforms” to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — a law that governs intellectual property on the Internet.
Music industry insiders —Perry and dozens more — have filed petitions to the U.S. Copyright Office detailing their struggles with the “antiquated policies” and demanding reform to better “protect the future of the music industry, recording artists and songwriters,” according to a statement from the RIAA.
“The laws strike a balance between facilitating free speech and creativity while protecting the interests of copyright holders,” Perry said. “These smart laws allow people to post content that they have created on platforms — such as videos, reviews, pictures, and text. In essence, this is what makes the Internet great. It's not about money. Only art."
Katy is joined by Christina Aguilera, Garth Brooks, CeeLo Green, Steven Tyler, deadmau5, Lionel Richie, Tony Bennett, Pearl Jam, Bette Midler, and many more in this campaign
Ok but what does she actually propose? How would this be done, Katy?
"The aim is to keep illegal videos off streaming services like Google’s YouTube.
Currently, complaints made about the pirated work result in the video being taken down — and then re-posted, sometimes minutes later.
Music creators can’t police these billions Web sites. A law that might have made sense in 1998 is now not only obsolete but actually harmful.
Suggestions from these groups include the implementation of so-called “audio fingerprinting,” which bars redistribution of unlicensed music; metadata analysis, which can identify possible infractions; and automatic removal or disabling of links to previously noted pirated content."
"The aim is to keep illegal videos off streaming services like Google’s YouTube.
Currently, complaints made about the pirated work result in the video being taken down — and then re-posted, sometimes minutes later.
Music creators can’t police these billions Web sites. A law that might have made sense in 1998 is now not only obsolete but actually harmful.
Suggestions from these groups include the implementation of so-called “audio fingerprinting,” which bars redistribution of unlicensed music; metadata analysis, which can identify possible infractions; and automatic removal or disabling of links to previously noted pirated content."
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Ok, but doesn't YouTube, Soundcloud, etc. already do that? They even detect unlicensed remixes of songs and videos and get pulled.
Ok, but doesn't YouTube, Soundcloud, etc. already do that? They even detect unlicensed remixes of songs and videos and get pulled.
It does but sometimes it misses songs (like Kiss It Better and Needed Me was on some randoms channel). Maybe she's on about the videos that have the song in a different pitch or sped up a bit
It does but sometimes it misses songs (like Kiss It Better and Needed Me was on some randoms channel). Maybe she's on about the videos that have the song in a different pitch or sped up a bit
Fair enough, but that's more of a tech problem than a problem the government needs to solve. I'd imagine labels pay Youtube to run such scanners for detecting unlicensed content. If labels aren't happy with the scanners, then they should work with Youtube to improve the scanners.
