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Copyright Deadlock (The Jimquisition)

Stephanie Sterling · 772.8K views · 2016-04-28 · 10:40

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Overview

A Jimquisition episode by Jim Sterling demonstrating the Copyright Deadlock, where a video includes footage owned by several companies so that competing YouTube Content ID claims cancel each other out. It highlights how absurd the system is.

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HN cites it as the clearest explanation of how broken Content ID is and of the deadlock trick for defeating forced monetization.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2021

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dessant · 2018-08 · Strong recommendation

Jim Sterling has done a brilliant job at explaining how broken the YouTube Content ID system is, and how to prevent these companies from monetizing your work (though you don't get to run ads on the videos either). Possibly NSFW: [VIDEO]

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pdkl95 · 2021-06 · Reference

[VIDEO] (cw: strong language) TL;DW - nothing happens, it's an unresolvable deadlock. This "feature" can sometimes be used by deliberately adding many easily claimable works in a video to prevent anybody from monetizing it.

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pdkl95 · 2019-05 · Reference

Jim Sterling talking about including footage from multiple companies as a "copyright deadlock": [VIDEO]

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