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This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me by Rick Beato (YouTube)

Rick Beato was forced to hire a lawyer to defend his fair-use playing of artist’s music in his videos. The labels abuse the copyright-strike system and Google cheerfully goes along with it.

He has “successfully fought thousands of them—never lost one—they still keep coming in.”

There is no way for him to defend himself against these without a lawyer. UMG (Universal Music Group)—or, most likely, the third-party firm that they hired to enforce their copyrights—are not punished at all for raising invalid claims against people who are rightfully claiming fair use.

If they’ve failed at thousands of claims, why should they get to continue to lodge complaints for free, wasting everyone’s time, and making it more difficult to create interesting interviews and analysis? Google clearly doesn’t care, as this has been going on since nearly the beginning of their purchase of YouTube.

This is the world they have built for us. They hate us. They despise it when we do anything that doesn’t make them money.

Get back to work, monkey.