> If your video is demonetised because of copyright infringement, then youtube is asserting that it's not your video anyway; because you included 30 seconds of incidental music or whatever, the video actually belongs to Sony or Universal.
No, I think the idea is that Sony/Universal aren't the creators. The musicians are. So Sony/Universal would have no right to file the complaint in the first place. I think the article didn't explain this very well.
It's a little simpler for music, but this gets more complicated with something like a movie, because so many people are involved in the creation. The director is a pretty clear creator, but is the lead actor one of the creators? What about producers? Script writers?
Ultimately, the original idea of intellectual property laws was to protect the rights of creators/inventors, so I think the idea of this is to go back to that root. There are lots of details that would need to be worked out, but I think a return to the base principle is a good idea. Allowing transferability of intellectual property rights has enabled patent trolling, excessive renewing of copyrights, and often, exploitation of the very people intellectual property laws were intended to protect: creators.
No, I think the idea is that Sony/Universal aren't the creators. The musicians are. So Sony/Universal would have no right to file the complaint in the first place. I think the article didn't explain this very well.
It's a little simpler for music, but this gets more complicated with something like a movie, because so many people are involved in the creation. The director is a pretty clear creator, but is the lead actor one of the creators? What about producers? Script writers?
Ultimately, the original idea of intellectual property laws was to protect the rights of creators/inventors, so I think the idea of this is to go back to that root. There are lots of details that would need to be worked out, but I think a return to the base principle is a good idea. Allowing transferability of intellectual property rights has enabled patent trolling, excessive renewing of copyrights, and often, exploitation of the very people intellectual property laws were intended to protect: creators.