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@daualset where did you see about YouTube launching a music subscription business soon? How would that fit in with Google Play's music subscription business?
@bendrucker I wasn't claiming their profits effect application to copyright law, merely that the app wouldn't be lessening how much artists get paid for their work.
Parody and news reporting are only two parts of Fair Use. A judge would decide whether one of these works qualifies as a "transformative" derivative work, and it'd depend on how much they added. Something tells me the videos that are literally just one picture and the music would have a hard time justifying it.
But the ones that add lyrics timed to the video? Or more complex visuals? There's at least one fair use case for simply time-shifting a complete video recording, so lots of things seem possible.
(Agreed on the PH thread BTW. "Unless there's a DMCA there's no reason to subtract value from the community" is a great way of phrasing it)
@decktonic Interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you know if that position has been established in the courts? You definitely don't need permission to create something else using another's copyrighted work. It's up to the courts to decide if your new work is protected or not, based on the 4 factors listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fai.... YouTube could be doing what you describe because it's illegal, or because it doesn't want to take the issue to court.
I don't know the answer. It just seems difficult to claim that Image Search is ok, lyrics sites are ok, and Duchamp's "Mona Lisa with a Mustache" are ok. But absolutely no YouTube music videos are ok.
Crazy- had a look in the code and this appears to use YouTube to rip the MP3's direct from the videos and then Last.fm/iTunes to get the artist data https://github.com/hiphopapp/hip...
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@Simonatpaddle Agree. it's similar to Grooveshark.
Youtube has become the "Pirate's" favorite place to share music files. Most of the "videos" there are one image with soundtrack. Since Youtube is Google and Google owns the internet, artists wine about spotify when the real problem is YouTube.
Personally, I'd rather pay Spotify $10 a month and get my music in a proper quality and not a free 128kbs YouTube rip.
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It's definitely not good enough quality. I don't even know what I rather - the space is changing so quickly! Twitter is snooping round Soundcloud and that could make some waves.
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