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Facebook Launches Content ID Solution Just As YouTube System Comes Under Increasing Fire
Facebook has launched it’s own version of YouTube’s ContentID takedown system. It’s long overdue, but given recent increased criticism of YouTube’s system, the launch couldn’t have come at a worse time.
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By Mike Masnick of Techdirt
Last year, after a bunch of YouTube video creators started slamming Facebook for allowing people to re-upload their videos to Facebook (they called it “freebooting”), Facebook insisted that it, too, was building a ContentID-like system to automate the process of taking down videos based on infringement claims. Last fall, the company announced that it would be using the same system basically everyone other than Google uses: Audible Magic as the backend system of that tool. And now Facebook has officially announced its product, called “Rights Manager.”
Today we’re announcing the launch of Rights Manager, a set of admin and workflow tools that help publishers and creators manage and protect their video content on Facebook at scale. With Rights Manager, we want to give video publishers the confidence that their content is protected across Facebook, as well as provide them with increased flexibility and greater control over the use of their video.
Of course, these days, thanks to pressure from copyright holders, large platforms all feel compelled to offer something like this, even if it’s not legally required. It’s amusing that even in an age where the legacy players are demanding a “notice-and-staydown” system for copyright claims, they’re still not happy that basically all the large platforms are already creating platforms that do exactly that.
But what’s totally missing from the announcement is how Facebook will avoid the kind of abusive takedowns that YouTube’s ContentID sees all the time. There’s no mention of how it will protect against bogus claims. There’s no mention of how it will handle disputes. Facebook just seems to pretend that the system will work perfectly and it won’t be abused. There’s little basis to think that’s true given how widely ContentID is abused on a regular basis. The company also says that it has updated its “repeat infringer” policy, which is the new hotness thanks to some recent lawsuits over what qualifies as a reasonable repeat infringer policy.
Perhaps Facebook’s system won’t be nearly as abused as ContentID since it doesn’t appear to (yet!) include ContentID’s “monetize this use” feature — but it still seems destined for abuse. And that’s especially true since the company notes that the new system will be used against live content:
Video publishers and media companies can also provide reference streams of live content so that we can check live video on Facebook against those reference streams in real time.
So I’m sure we’ll start seeing examples of livestreams being killed mid-show thanks to a snippet of music playing in the background. Considering that Facebook is betting big on live streaming, a few false flags taking down events that were livestreamed due to incidental copyright-covered content playing in the background may raise questions about how viable a tool this is.
To be clear, this is a difficult position for platforms to be in. They obviously feel strong pressure to take down infringing content, and an automated solution feels like it makes sense. But we’ve seen how these things are abused, and it’s at least a little concerning that Facebook doesn’t even seem to acknowledge that possibility in its announcement.
Kanye West Abandons Tidal For Apple Music
Kanye West has done it again…
He just keeps on surprising us with his inconsistent behaviour.
First, he declared that his music would never never NEVER be available on Apple Music, Spotify or any other streaming service apart from Tidal.
Then he later went back on his word and made his latest album ‘The Life of Pablo’ more widely available on all streaming platforms, including both Apple Music and Spotify.
Now, West has gone and done the un-thinkable.
The Rapper’s latest song ‘Saint Pablo’ is now available to stream…but it’s not on Tidal. It’s actually only available on Apple Music.
‘Saint Pablo’ includes a Jay Z sample and a feature from British singer Sampha. Feedback from his fans has been sweeping Twitter in the last hour and it’s been nothing but positive. However, the lyrics state reasons why he chose to invest in Tidal as opposed to Apple Music, which seem pretty ironic giving the circumstances.
There is speculation that the release may just be a ‘glitch’ on Apple’s side, though this may just be another crazy decision from Kanye, who know’s.
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Karen Macmillan has been appointed as the new Vice President of Imagem USA Creative Services. Macmillan comes to Imagem USA from a position as Senior Director of Advertising & Branding at Nettwerk Music Group.
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• Fredda Hurwitz, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Havas Sports & Entertainment as been named to Music Dealers‘ Board of Directors as Global Strategic Advisor.
• SAG-AFTRA announced that Gabrielle Carteris has been elected president of the actor’s union by acclamation in a national board vote. Cateris most recently served as the union’s Executive Vice President. She steps in for the late Ken Howard, who passed away March 23, the first sitting president in the union’s history to die in office.
• David Gest, producer, entertainer and reality show star, died at the Four Seasons hotel in London. He was 62. According to the BBC, Gest’s friend and ex-bodyguard Imad Handi confirmed the news in a statement. The cause of death was not disclosed. Gest, formerly married to entertainer Liza Minelli is best known for producing Michael Jackson’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, a 2001 television special which became one of highest-rated televised events in US music history.
• DJ Khaled, multi-platinum award-winning recording artist and head of record label/management company The Best Music Group, has signed with Epic Records. The deal will see the Khaled release his fortcoming studio album Major Key on Epic.
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