[article] YouTube, JASRAC still at loggerheads

[nmskalmn]

Excerpt:

The JASRAC-YouTube fracas is the latest example of the continuing clash between users' and copyright holders' rights in the digital era. Music videos are a great promotional medium, as the history of MTV shows, but the music biz has always had a problem figuring out whether videos are strictly for promo purposes or are a product just like CDs. From a strictly legal point of view, JASRAC is well within its rights to demand that YouTube stop posting copyrighted material without authorization, but it can also be argued that such a policy is short-sighted, because it could cut off an effective way of promoting Japanese music to the wider world.

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[starr5245]

>_< I think they're really overdoing the protection of Japanese music, which seems parallel to the mentality of some in Playstation who refuse to release non-Japanese version of their games in Asia, which means a loss of market. But I think they're adamant about this so there's not much we can do but to watch and see what comes next.

[Melting_Holidays]

Japan releases CD+DVDs. So the record company would lose money if people just saw those videos on youtube.(JASRAC too. A LOT of people just watch videos on youtube instead of buying them)

I really don't have any problem with it since youtube was never intended for that. It was made like that because of the users so it's the users to blame.

Also if you don't want people to find your videos you can just name them different.(ayu - 1 love, AH - 1 love)