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Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

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Perhaps there needs to be a version of the Creative Commons with a group kill-switch, where if a licensee violates the terms of the license, they lose the rights to use all CC-KS works until the violations have been remedied.

Not sure I'd go that far, but it's certainly an argument for CC-BY over CC0. With CC-BY they must credit you, and you can then either trivially prove your ownership of the work, or demonstrate copyright infringement (if they have violated the license).

Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

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I know that here in California, there is a non-profit named California Lawyers for the Arts[1] that will help artists get connected with lawyers who know copyright. It might be worth contacting them or a similar organization near the author for more info.

[1]http://www.calawyersforthearts.org

(Disclosure: I have known a few people who worked for CLA.)

Re: UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

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Pretty egregious, and something which one would hope you could sue Google for. In this case aiding in the infringement of Copyright because it is the Content ID system, with a borked refusal policy, that are allowing UMG to pirate the artist's music and to make a profit from it. Not only from the artist but anyone who was paying license fees to the artist are now having their video revenue get hijacked by UMG. Seems…

> Pretty egregious, and something which one would hope you could sue Google for. From the facts described, UMG is fraudulently interfering with Google's relationship with a legitimate business partner in order to commit criminal copyright infringement. Certainly, someone should be prosecuted -- by the DOJ, not just the victim -- but I don't see why Google should be the primary target (if anything, Google should be am…

That would be an interesting construction. From an engagement perspective it is probably easier to get a lawyer on spec based on class action status but if the DoJ could be brought in it would certainly give us something that the courts might be able to use to clarify automated takedown as it relates to the DMCA.
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