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Youtube's new rules coming soon
- Thread starter Metalbasspro
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The "Lego community"? Oh brother. Anyway, I don't really care. There's too much clogging up YouTube (and the internet in general) as it is.
Didn't watch past the first few seconds, as it didn't seem to have anything to do with music. Maybe you could provide some additional info that would help us understand how this might affect us?
Two minutes in and literally nothing of relevance, though I did not know YouTube got fined what amounts to, for them, pocket change, for tracking kids. Google tracks everyone all the time to the extent they can, and once in a while they get a minor wrist slap for it. Nothing new there.
How this has anything whatsoever to do with music or bass or gear is completely opaque. If there's a point here it has to come a lot sooner.
How this has anything whatsoever to do with music or bass or gear is completely opaque. If there's a point here it has to come a lot sooner.
Try this one. Even music channels have to declare their content. My issues is I don't even know how. They don;t make it easy like a box to check when loading the video. I think that is by design.
Declare what? I'm not watching a video unless you give me a reason. What are we declaring? That we don't own the content? That nothing is in the video that we don't own? What, exactly, is relevant to me here?
So a act passed in the late 1990's that is to protect Children will be applied to creators over some law suite google lost. So you have to declare your videos as for kids or not for kids. But like I say it's not being made easy.
It looks like hundreds or thousands channels will go poof by the dead line. Also that youtube will give no clear guide lines on how to decide what way to declare. Something about if your video is not in compliance you could be fined by the FCC 400,000 dollars over much of nothing. To be totally safe you have to pull out of youtube or hire a lawyer to sort it out for you.
It looks like hundreds or thousands channels will go poof by the dead line. Also that youtube will give no clear guide lines on how to decide what way to declare. Something about if your video is not in compliance you could be fined by the FCC 400,000 dollars over much of nothing. To be totally safe you have to pull out of youtube or hire a lawyer to sort it out for you.
Thanks. I'll look into it. I have a few videos online, they are not explicitly for kids but kids could watch them if they wanted. I feel like there is so much existing content on there already that they'd be rather foolish to just blanket all their content with a requirement that would expose users to that much risk. They'd best be prepared to lose most of their users if they start doing that.
So you put the Parental Advisory sticker like on albums on all your video thumbnails and all is good?
Seemed to work for the music business.
YouTube was found to be leading children into videos that were decidedly not family friendly.
They are now putting the onus on creators. If your content is labeled incorrectly then you will be prosecuted and YT will be held harmless.
They are now putting the onus on creators. If your content is labeled incorrectly then you will be prosecuted and YT will be held harmless.
Prosecuted by whom, and under what conditions? I mean, I can't imagine my harmless music videos present some prosecutable offense. I do understand putting the onus on the creator, but wouldn't that be a proactive thing that would protect them in the event someone posts something kids shouldn't see?
I gather it would be the FTC, as they fined YT to begin with and they would levy the fines against creators.
MBP might be getting too enthusiastic about who will actually be affected.
I imagine a series of complaints would need to be lodged and the content somewhat egregious, which it was in the aforementioned YT case.
Looks like fines not jail time. Its looking more and more like its a catch all being put in place to direct against people the government does not like at any given time. Even if you declare the video not for children does not mean you are safe from the agency that can fine you.
Veering into questionable territory. Conspiracies abound. I'll wait until they give me some grief before I worry about anything.
"This video contains content known to the state of YouTube to be harmful to children."
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
"This video contains content known to the state of YouTube to be harmful to children."
Problem solved.
Are you sure you are in WI and not CA?
