YouTube pressing “mute”, no audio for videos with copyright

If you happen to go to YouTube to see and hear the video of “Believe it Or Not” of the Canadian rock band Nickelback or “Laundromat Blues” by guitarist Albert King and not heard anything, been quiet: you do not have any trouble hearing, the your headphones are not broken, nor have the speakers out of the laptop. Is YouTube that has pressed the “mute”. They took the audio for the videos uploaded on the website of online sharing that infringed copyright laws.

In the video appears in uppercase indicted a “notification” with the words: “This video contains an audio track the use of which has not been authorized by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.” The message then advising users to read the copyright information.

YouTube, with its 13 hours of video uploaded per minute and with its 300 million monthly users, is the largest video site in the world. Until that happened today that users carried on the platform, owned by Google, video clips of their favorite singers or video home made, from festivals to weddings of children, the collage of photos up to the images of the holidays, often using as a soundtrack music copyright. If you take a look at the most popular channels of YouTube will, in fact, that seven out of ten are related to music. Well, now the music in the home of California seems to have changed. YouTube, which accounts for years an important reference point for all music fans, has put the poles: the “silence” the sound of those videos are protected by copyright or the substitution of free music tracks.

Wednesday, January 14 on the YouTube Blog is a post entitled: “User Choice and Music Licensing” (The choice of music and the license), in which the YouTube Team warns alerting their users of the new rules. “Previously, when a video was included subject to a mark (label) music or other rights subject to copyright – we read on the blog – the sound was blocked, and the video was automatically removed. The uploaders (who upload video ) could buy the rights (such as “fair” use) or use our tool AudioSwap to replace the track with one of our music library. Now we’ve added another choice. Instead of automatically delete the videos from YouTube, to give Users can edit the video, eliminating the music subject to copyright and upload a new version, and many are choosing that option. ”

But the people of the network and there is the critical choice made by YouTube. Indeed mashable.com site claims that the decision taken by the video sharing site will generate some consequences. Among them: no more music in the animated video, no more remix of film, no more videos from guitarists and rock band. But Maria Ferreras, Strategic partner development manager for YouTube, trying to reassure their users: “The ability to edit the video, removing or replacing the audio-copyright, is for YouTube users a new and important opportunities than ever before . You will not see most of their video blocked but will keep the public, simply by changing the audio track. This is in our opinion the best solution to enhance the content of users while maintaining the integrity of the initial and respecting the owners rights ”

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