The back and forth continues between musician Maria Schneider and YouTube in the legal battle over who gets access to the latter’s Content ID rights management system.Schneider claims that while Content ID may be a pretty decent rights management platform – allowing YouTube to comply with its obligations under US law to deal with copyright infringing content uploaded by its users – only the biggest rights-owners and distributors are granted access to the technology.Independent creators like herself, Schneider then argues, are obliged to manually issue takedown requests if their content appears on the YouTube platform, and YouTube’s manual takedowns process is, she claims, pretty damn shoddy.This whole case went on a quite a detour, of.
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