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Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes

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153 points breve | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 05:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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neilv ◴[31 Aug 25 09:13 UTC] No.45081713[source]▶
If some legislator or public interest lawyer would like to fix some of the DMCA shortcomings or abuses, I think Rick Beato would be a good poster child for legitimate fair use.

Beato does high-quality, knowledgeable videos that make IMHO legitimate educational use of short audio clips, interleaved with discussion. No one can listen to a Beato video to get the experience of the full song, and the Beato video plausibly promotes people wanting to listen to the full song.

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1. Doxin ◴[01 Sep 25 07:41 UTC] No.45090447[source]▶
Another good example of what should clearly count as fair use is the 3BSkyen channel on youtube[0]. The guy does analyses of animated media and has a habit of turning 5 minutes of media into an hour or more of analysis. He cuts and rewinds and replays stuff constantly. No one in their right mind is going to watch a 3BSkyen video instead of the original. There is no competition between them.

And yet for a lot of IP he can't show the media he's reacting to because it'll immediately and automatically get claimed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@3BSkyen