AJ Sadauskas<p>When it comes to copyright, it seems like there's one rule for big tech and another for everyone else.<br><br>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: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4</a><br><br>Beato has also received emails from Google/YouTube warning that if the supposedly infringing clips aren't removed, his whole channel will be deleted.<br><br>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.<br><br>(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.)<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>And despite no past copyright claims against his channel being successful, the automated claims keep coming.<br><br>The claims are enforced through YouTube/Google.<br><br>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.<br><br>The companies doing this include YouTube's parent company, Google.<br><br>It seems there's some double standards going on.<br><br>Big tech companies enforce copyright claims against ordinary people, while those same corporations harvest copyrighted materials at an industrial scale.<br><br>One law for them, another for everyone else.<br><br><a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/rickbeato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RickBeato</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>