Copyright Issues in the Blockchain Era.... Big Fights Coming Up
There are a couple of interesting news suggesting that unauthorized uploading of copyrighted material on Youtube, etc, will be more strongly policed in the future.
First, you better take note that the ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVITY AND ENTERTAINMENT was born. It´s a "global coalition of leading content creators and on-demand entertainment services committed to supporting the legal marketplace for video content and addressing the challenge of online piracy." No jokes. And since the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, etc, are part of it, one can safely assume that they have the resources to fight online piracy.
Next, The European Union Court of Justice has just ruled against The Pirate Bay, which is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software founded in 2003.
The Court said that: " “Making available and managing an online platform for sharing copyright-protected works, such as ‘The Pirate Bay,’ may constitute an infringement of copyright.”
“Whilst...the works in question are placed online by the users, the Court highlights the fact that the operators of the platform play an essential role in making those works available.”
This means that in the future the likes of Youtube, Facebook, etc, might be forced to deploy substantial resources to police the content put online by users. Much more so than what has happened in the past.
Is this good or bad? Personally, I do respect the notion of copyright. Absolutely. However, I recently found out how complex is to manage copyright if your business is international. Something must be done to make it simpler.
My hope is that pressure to fight piracy, in a context where blockchain-based decentralized repositories are about to be launched, will foster new ideas and a new, leaner global approach to copyright issues.
Copyright abuse on the blockchain is something I've been thinking about off and on recently.
When video services like steemq start to come online, I could see it turning into a bit of a problem when someone inevitably uploads the latest blockbuster. Mass flagging is of course the first line of defense, but that's taking into account most of the viewers of the pirated material will do so. With the prevalence of people watching pirated materials today, most people won't be too concerned about it and probably even give it a vote of confidence.
I'm sure video blockchain providers will come up with a system where verified accounts can claim copyrighted material as their own, but that leads to the broken system seen on YouTube that is incredibly open to abuse.
It will be interesting to see what kind of solutions developers come up with!
No let's NOT flag copyrigjted content! If big movie or music label as want it flagged they can Create an account, buy millions in steempower and flag it themselves :) we should offer this as the ONLy way a copyright holder can evenHOPE to discourage people posting copyrighted material but look copyright is a a joke and so is intellectuals property rights! All the big corporation s use them for is to copyright our own fucking DNA or tell an aspiring artist that they'll go prison for simply donwloding a pirated free copy of photoshop or a music program that an artist might need to chanhe the world! And if you can find a way to nevertheless pay for IG corporate music my mivoes and software then why pay whenever it doesn't cost them anything for you to use their material for free ! It is NOt A loss of profit because i was never even going to buy it because I never nevee had the money ! LOL ya creators should get paid for content and that's why we have steemit now!
People already I uoload hollywood blockbusters on all sorts so of pirate movie sites like solarmovie or watch series and they cam never shit them down!!! Especially now with blockchain. I say let the pirates peofit off big corporate movies! If movie studio wants the pot flagged they'll hve to singuo buy steempower wnd do it themselves!!! Haha this Is a war! An information war! And we should support free speech and anarchy capitalism the ability to make money on whatever you want on the blockchain! If it ends up hurting people it will get flagged by the community but why would the community flag a really cool new movie? Who care so who posts it... a steemit user is benefiting! If the movie producer want the steemit they can singup to steemit themselves we ahould t offer to pay non steemit users for what we've mad enough in steem inn or own website! This is our thing! First they said steemit was a ponzi and steem was fake Monopoly money not woerh anything... and now they want a cut or the money we're making in taxes??? Haha don't u get frustratedly about this stuf? Ive Brennon thinking about this copyright intellectual property debate since I was young kid pirating software like ohoroshop and adobe premiere and Maya 3D programs I could not afford and never would have been able Ron teach myself and create and produce art! The idea that I shojksnt have pirated the software just because I couldn't afford to buy it is so mean and evil because so many people have the computers To use those program buy can't because some fuxkin information costs hundteds or thousands of dollars when it costs almost nothing to burn a CD rom or DVD or download a File and just crazy do imagine
Thank u for the post!! I thought the same thing about when our steemit video service launhes
You really need to keep your comments shorter still @ackza ... if you want people to read them that is ;) But you're making some good points here :thumbsup:
This is an interesting approach that I think should be considered.
I don't think policing the entire blockchain will be practical and if it were, it would actually work against the tendencies that helped popularize social media sites in general and especially places like Youtube in the first place.
I personally think bot networks upvoting eachother is the real threat here, not the copyright violations or plagiarizing.
This will be interesting to see. As far as I can see, after a certain amount of time the content put out is on the blockchain and there is nothing the user can do about it to change that. The normal rule of simple take down requests won't quite work. Unless the owners here can remove posts, my knowledge is fairly limited with how the blockchain operates.
Posts can't be removed from the site/app displaying them, such as Steemit, Busy or eSteem, but never from the blockchain itself. All changes can be traced back in time using a more detailed user interface, such as Steemd.
A very intersting article. I will follow carefully how this plays out!
It does bring up some very interesting legal and philosophical questions.
It will certainly be interesting to see how this unfolds! Thanks for sharing and I'm following you :)
Thanks for bringing up the subject claudiop63.
I am wondering if a Steemit member accidentally or otherwise loads a protected picture, video or other media in their post and it is later determined to be a violation, how would it be taken down if the poster can no longer edit the post from the blockchain? I am told that some media content actually can change from public use to restricted at a later date and bring up issues that did not originally exist. 😕
If copyright changes, they would have to determine wether the uploader has taken enough steps to undo his own sharing. As content can't be removed from the blockchain itself, removing it from the user interface originally used for sharing it with ought to be enough.
I can't say that I'm not a pirate, so maybe take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I believe that copyright is an outdated notion that needs to be brought into the 21st century. I won't even pretend to know how this could be done, all I know is it should be done. So far as possible solutions we have Creative Commons licenses but obviously big companies will never go for something like that.
I really do think there needs to be a shift of consciousness within these companies that leads them to focus on designing desirable real life, tangible, physical mediums and products and use those as a source of profit instead of criminalising broke people like me who download a shitty digital file.
My personal opinion regarding piracy is that a digital file is nothing more or less than an advertisement, and if your product is good enough I'll want to pay money for it when I can afford it. But I'm just rambling now.
I think that if there's no explicit claim to be the originator of the content and if there was no breach of contract between the uploader and the copyright owner, there ought to be no law punnishing neither sharing nor reselling.
I was also thinking about this issue today.