Originally Posted By: av84fun
...In fact, one of the reasons that infringement is so rampant is that the copyright owners...even the Majors...spend VERY little time chasing infringers and stumble across them mostly by accident....


Since the advent of cash rewards to reporters of possible infringements, along with guaranteed anonymity, they do not have to spend time chasing infringements - and there is no way for you to know whether or not someone reported the alleged violation or someone would "stumble across them by accident".

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Some have even taken the position that the appearance of copyrighted music on YouTube...sometimes entire albums...is "marketing" in the hope that folks will like what they hear and either become a fan (The Eagles...Beatles etc. get BRAND NEW FANS every single day)or will go buy higher quality versions of the music.


Didn't Youtube come up with a legal arrangement that covers a lot of these?

Pretty certain that is the case, a kind of licensing agreement whereby some small part of advertising revenue generated is placed in some sort of pool that purports to distribute monies to copyright holders. Easy enough to websearch for that, if one desires to find out.

I've been in the bidness a rather long time, too, and one thing I'm certain of is that nothing in this category happens by coincidence...


--Mac

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