Sony Charges For Fair Use

This prompted me to brush up on my fair use knowledge. I didn't know that fair use could be claimed on the grounds that the content in educational. I had thought it only applied if the work was transformative. Interesting how that works.

Lol I live in the Hudson Valley

So I thought about the whole #WTFU situation going on lately and thought up this Content ID idea. What do you guys think? It's rough to some content creators but maybe reaches a cleaner middleground with more stability than the grey area called Fair Use.

The current Content ID system is capable of finding the Copyrighted material within the video track and audio track AND is even capable of pinpointing the timestamps where the material occurs in the video. With a little upgrade of the current system, you probably could even calculate what percentage of the screen is used to show copyrighted material. Couldn't this information be used to calculate what percentage of the video is used for copyrighted material? And that percentage will be used to reserve revenue from the video for the original creator? This way atleast the full revenue won't be stopped for those in need, and copyright owners get their portion.

Such system would then show the video creator the percentage and where in the video the copyrighted material occurs and they can contest when they do not agree.

I think this would also stop takedowns and even encourage use of copyrighted material albeit not content creator side. There will be more second guessing whether to use copyrighted material and in which capacity.

For games, since they are an outlier, that system may need to be tweaked? Cutscene and music are prone to trigger content id in this case, but then again, the game creator get a share of the deal. It only means that Gamers need to recheck their business strategy a bit and maybe even hide music and cutscenes as much as possible...

This destroys the idea of Fair Use, but that should be for the best. It was too much of a grey area anyway.

How does this sound?

everyone who has been hit by this shit should band together and sue companies that do that shit for billions of dollars, that will send a message

Rocky Top! :D

I am surprised that a large lawsuit has not incurred to either Nintendo or Sony at this point due to revenue loss, for example with Nintendo they are copy righting things they have not made but are played on their console so they have no grounds there, as for the Sony part it just seems like a huge money grab for a groundless grab if Blue Grass did find only one lawyer most likely Sony would be forced to pay a large fine for the abuse of the Digital Millennial Copyright Act and thus deter them from doing anything more. Hell I would personally throw money at a company that was there to dispute these acts

more like FARE use.

it was a representative that said this so you will probably see the person fired or something in the near future and sony will say the $500 license fee is for using their music not needing to be paid for content under fair use