User-Created Youtube Videos get Muted

As previously reported by Mashable, YouTube has started muting videos that utilize unauthorized copyrighted music, which encompasses most user-created videos. Affected clips have an official notice underneath declaring unauthorized content, here is the clip pictured. However, the Youtube official blog states that they are giving users the option to mute their own videos, rather than automatically taking them down.

From the Youtube blog:

“Previously, when a music label or other rights owner issued a copyright claim to block audio, the video was automatically taken down. [Now], instead of automatically removing the video from YouTube, we give users the option to modify the video by removing the music subject to the copyright claim and post the new version, and many of them are taking that option.”

The repercussions of this decision are huge, because tens of thousands of user-created spoofs, funny remixes and hewn together clips will be without songs, and practically ruined. Users won’t be happy, but on the bright side, we no longer have to listen to the same Linkin Park song over and over again.

Source: Youtube
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