CBS' Overzealous Copyright Bots HIt Star Trek Virtual Comic-Con Panel (arstechnica.com) 18
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: San Diego Comic-Con -- like just about every large conference, convention, and gathering in 2020 -- has had to switch to an online-only virtual format this year due to the continuing pandemic. Media companies that usually have a large presence at events like SDCC worked hard to create streaming alternative content -- but it seems they forgot to tell their copyright bots.
ViacomCBS kicked things off today with an hour-long panel showing off its slew of current and upcoming Star Trek projects: Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds. The panel included the cast and producers of Discovery doing a read-through of the first act of the season 2 finale, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2." The "enhanced" read-through included sound effects, effects shots, and storyboard images meant to bolster the actors as they delivered lines from their living rooms and home offices. Even if the presentation didn't look like a real episode of Discovery to the home viewer, it apparently sounded close enough: after the Star Trek Universe virtual panel began viewers began to lose access to the stream. In place of the video, YouTube displayed a content ID warning reading: "Video unavailable: This video contains content from CBS CID, who has blocked it on copyright grounds." After being blacked out for about 20 minutes, the panel was restored, and the recording of the virtual panel has no gaps in playback.
ViacomCBS kicked things off today with an hour-long panel showing off its slew of current and upcoming Star Trek projects: Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds. The panel included the cast and producers of Discovery doing a read-through of the first act of the season 2 finale, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2." The "enhanced" read-through included sound effects, effects shots, and storyboard images meant to bolster the actors as they delivered lines from their living rooms and home offices. Even if the presentation didn't look like a real episode of Discovery to the home viewer, it apparently sounded close enough: after the Star Trek Universe virtual panel began viewers began to lose access to the stream. In place of the video, YouTube displayed a content ID warning reading: "Video unavailable: This video contains content from CBS CID, who has blocked it on copyright grounds." After being blacked out for about 20 minutes, the panel was restored, and the recording of the virtual panel has no gaps in playback.
Got your storyboard right here..... (Score:3)
Nelson: Haaaa-Haaaaa
Re:Got your storyboard right here..... (Score:4, Funny)
"The above comment was unavailable: The comment contains content from FOX CID, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."
Good (Score:2)
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"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee-hee-hee."
I see that works for more than just gaming.
ST: Picard & the Bots (Score:1)
however, what I found funny and painfully cringey was him shining a light on CBS's awkward bot-based social media "manipulation", which he humorously calls-back to at various points throughout the hour and a half.
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I took one look at the runtime and passed on it. He spent an hour reviewing a movie that is only 2:14 minutes long? That's bordering on MST-3K levels of coverage. :-)
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If you love Mr. Plinkett you might also be interested in:
* Georg Rockall-Schmidt [youtube.com]. e.g. How The RoboCop Movies Changed [youtube.com]
* The Critical Drinker [youtube.com]. e.g. Why The Past Matters [youtube.com]
* Lindsay Ellis [youtube.com]. e.g The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) [youtube.com], and Why is Cats? [youtube.com]
Cool I guess, but... (Score:2)
Algo problematic? (Score:3, Insightful)
My wife works for a dutch radio broadcasting platform, and time after time they keep being hit with false claims of rights infringement from, say, e.g. Warner Brothers, about content they apparently streamed.
While they did not.
Work hours later, the issue has been resolved as a false positive, and the claim goes away.
Human work hours, costing actual tax payers money, on some software being wrong, which in my mind, -and I told her-, is also about authority.
"What company are you? Why do you claim?"
"Because you have some software that says so. Very nice for you, good day, come back when you have fixed your **** software."
It would be best if false claims, say when you hit 3 false claims in a row, -or some other rule- would rightly and legally be able to be ignored.
Most of the world can't fight back, there are no algorithms that counter with a legal battle. Many are simply not there yet with all these technical -on top of everyone- cutting edge, sometimes false
It seems a bit unfair at times.
We're almost there... I hope.
What do you think?
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Because the US pushed very stronglyl for its own broken IP laws to be used around the world.
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Simply make it illegal for machines to file legal complaints with appropriate fiscal penalty. It must be reviewed by a person prior to making that complaint and the person must take full legal liability for making that complaint, including slander and filing of false charges.
No machine lead prosecutions, they should be illegal under law.
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These aren't legal complaints. They are a system internal to Youtube, that it offers the rights-hodlers access to.
need more laws to prevent interference (Score:2)
I think it civil cases for copyright-bots-gone-wrong should be possible. If you interfere with my event or my business or my legally permitted activities. Then there should be some accountability for damages plus some.
If there is an fund that gets lawyers connected to people who have been wronged by overzealous copyright owners, I'd be up for donating to that.
edits/rewording left behind mistakes (Score:2)
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also, punctuation could be better.
History changed or edited or hidden (Score:1)