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When it comes to copyright, it seems like there's one rule for big tech and another for everyone else.

So earlier today, the well-known music YouTuber Rick Beato posted a video about how the record company UMG had filed a number of seemingly automated copyright claims against his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4

Beato has also received emails from Google/YouTube warning that if the supposedly infringing clips aren't removed, his whole channel will be deleted.

For those who aren't familiar with Beato, he's an American record producer who often posts interviews with other producers and musicians on his channel.

(Before becoming a record producer, he was also in a '90s alternative rock rock band called Billionaire, whose biggest claim to fame was being the opening act for Megadeth on a couple of tours.)

The claims relate to videos where Beato played a short seconds-long sample of a song in the context of asking a question to the producer or musician who created that song.

Before anyone points out that fair use is protected under American copyright law, that's true. But as Beato explains, he needs to pay a lawyer to contest those claims.

And despite no past copyright claims against his channel being successful, the automated claims keep coming.

The claims are enforced through YouTube/Google.

All of this is happening at a time when the world's biggest corporations are building massive data centres to harvest copyrighted materials as LLM training data on an industrial scale.

The companies doing this include YouTube's parent company, Google.

It seems there's some double standards going on.

Big tech companies enforce copyright claims against ordinary people, while those same corporations harvest copyrighted materials at an industrial scale.

One law for them, another for everyone else.

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