From ReclaimTheNet.org….
“Rightsholders choose to monetize 90% of all Content ID claims, opening up a multitude of new revenue streams for themselves. In the music industry, rights holders choose to monetize over 95% of Content ID claims” – YouTube’s Global Director of Business Public Policy Katherine Oyama told the US Senate recently, revealing that a huge majority of copyright claimed videos on YouTube are not removed, but monetized instead.
If these videos had indeed been taken off, billions in (ad) revenues would have been lost. Instead, the revenue resulting from these warnings handed out to YouTube creators means that not only Google as the platform’s owners make a pretty buck just sending out threats – thanks to YouTube’s Content ID system and its strong monetization tools.
The system seems to be well crafted and rigged to support a copyright-claims-exploiting industry, such as entertainment, music, or gaming.
Google’s video giant YouTube Content ID – a digital fingerprinting system developed by Google to identify and manage copyrighted content on YouTube – may be transparent in the way it reports about the whopping millions of takedown requests coming from Google’s very own search engine.
