according to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki the EU copyright directive if it's
implemented could lead to blocked access for all EU users I know we have a lot of
EU and UK subscribers and yes this does affect people in the UK because that's
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talked a little about article 13 which is the EU copyright directive that will
effectively ruin the internet if you haven't seen our previous coverage on
article 13 it's clickable on the screen right now but here's a little bit of a
recap article 13 is a proposed new law that wants stricter copyright
infringement enforcement that puts the responsibility on the platform instead
of the user if it goes into place social media sites like YouTube will be forced
to remove content that contains copyrighted material I don't know if you
guys notice they're anything but YouTube is all about using other people's
material reaction videos parodies meme review of course there's original
content on YouTube as well but a large chunk of it involves featuring content
owned by others YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said in a long blog post
that the --use article 13 is financially impossible for YouTube she used Esposito
as an example it's the most watched video on YouTube but it contains
multiple copyrights ranging from sound recording to publishing rights although
YouTube has agreements with multiple entities to license and pay for the
video some of the rights holders remain unknown she further said that YouTube
might have to block videos like that to avoid liability under article 13 blocked
Esposito how did God know okay maybe this Pacita was a bad example that you
get the idea this obviously isn't YouTube's fault I know I'm not directly
complaining about YouTube that's a first article 13 makes YouTube and other
platforms liable which means if they don't comply with article 13 they're the
ones that could be taken to court not the users who are using copyrighted
material as you can imagine there's 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every
single minute that's a lot that's a lot of content
it's gonna be really difficult for the platform to sift through all of that so
it's likely going to put in place a system that filters out that kind of
content otherwise YouTube could get sued left right and center for copyright
infringement or they could be forced to pay out money to people who own the
content and this definitely does affect the UK the YouTube creators account
tweeted as of now UK is still a part of the EU that's actually until March so
YouTube and other platforms may have no choice but to block your existing videos
and prevent you from uploading new ones in the European Union unless you can
prove you own everything in your videos hashtags save your internet this will
also affect people outside of the EU YouTube creators also tweeted if the
current version of article 13 goes into effect your videos may be blocked from
being seen by your viewers in the EU that's a huge market the European Union
is gigantic a lot of people in the EU use YouTube and those people will not be
able to watch your videos and the last month alone EU users have watched
content nearly 90 billion times there's 35 million EU channels a lot of this
content is educational there's videos for learning languages videos for
science and music videos and it's not just YouTube it applies to all social
media platforms honestly it's kind of hard to understand why the EU wants to
do this in the first place it's a good chance that they just don't
understand the internet and the current fair use law maybe EU lawmakers don't
understand just how widespread copyrighted material is then again maybe
they do understand and that's why they're trying to regulate it to give
back to the original artists but that being said there's already a system in
place to protect artists from copyright infringement on youtube its Content ID
today YouTube has paid out 2.5 billion euros to rights holders her third-party
use of their content as right now YouTube doesn't really have the
technical or the monetary capabilities to enforce article 13 hopefully it won't
get passed or hopefully they'll change it there are way too many people that
are against it but that being said the initial vote did pass and it still has
to go through another vote in January of 2019 all right guys I'm gonna light in
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