Good point, but I doubt those copyright holders object to the free advertising. It would be a simple matter to ask them. I am pretty sure if somebody wants to listen to s free rendition of some song or see a free movie, they don't go 'Oh! I know! I'll watch WWDC keynotes!'. Just sayin'. Artists and companies have a right to control and profit from the content they create, but this doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
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Apple Issues Takedown Order for Popular YouTube Channel That Archived WWDC Keynotes
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Actually at YouTube if you upload content from someone else and he claims that content, he is offered to let the content online and get ALL the ad revenue, while the uploader will receive nothing. That often happens with videos that contain music. That's why music is dangerous on Youtube. Your video might have a million views, but all the ad money will go to the owner of the music you used in your video.
That's always the risk when you use someone else's content, especially a mega corporation like Apple. If anything, it would make sense for Apple themselves to either upload them to their channel or make an archive channel to generate perpetual revenue off of existing content. Hopefully he didn't monetize the videos or the takedown of the channel was letting him off easy for what it could've been.
Apple is a company that loathes anything nostalgia. Steve Jobs implemented this philosophy. It’s just sad that we can’t look back and see how far we’ve come. To see the core foundations of technologies we take for granted today, the mistakes and just what developer life was like then.
What are they gonna do next, tell YouTubers showing videos of old developer versions like OS X DP 1 and 2 to take those down too?
What are they gonna do next, tell YouTubers showing videos of old developer versions like OS X DP 1 and 2 to take those down too?
The later stage Tim Apple doesn’t want people to remember how amazing the Steve Notes were.
With all the things apple did recently I think they don’t care about their look anymore
Except Nintendo doesn't care if you clip and share their official announcements from past Directs or PR videos.
Apple can do what they want with their content. It is theirs, but this is not a good move. I remember when the house behind the popular Zork series called their newsletter 'The New Zork Times', obviously parody/satire, was sued by the New York Times claiming infringement and that people would be confused by the name. All laughable on the surface, but the suit caused them to rename the news letter. Such uses of threats are unfortunate. Making Apple's WWDC keynotes isn't hurting Apple in any way. Just like The New Zork Times. Yikes...
Standard practice, you can't just use someone else's content without permission.
And he is saying he should've gotten a warning first but also admits he got takedown notices in the past and evidently ignored those. So he got a warning, he just decided to ignore it.
And he is saying he should've gotten a warning first but also admits he got takedown notices in the past and evidently ignored those. So he got a warning, he just decided to ignore it.
Well then....then that solves the problem that the user wasn't warned and that he could've taken additional steps to prevent his valuable content from getting deleted off of the face of the internet...
Disney and Lucasfilm learned the hard way not to bite the hand that feeds you when it comes to YouTube. Backlash was severe. May the same fate befall Apple.
Yeah, something that has been weaponised and demonised more than what they supposed to do: protect the right of intellectual property owner.
Im not saying apple can’t take down those videos. I’m just saying copyright system has been broken for decades and that channel is half of a victim of that (Strictly speaking he‘s not clean but Apple is far from blame-free here either)
Could/is Apple going the way of Google?
Remember the early days of Googles "do no evil"?
I spoke with a IP lawyer about this and he's of the opinion:
Music and Videos within the Keynotes are the issue. Apple will have been pursued by the relevant Music fee collecting agencies for payment. It's likely that Apple alone are allowed to host and play the music / videos or any other 3rd party stuff.
Apple themselves will have been served a DMCA notice about this from the PRS or ASCAP etc.
And coudl have amounted to a huge amount. one such your tube video had a music video embedded and the PRS pursued the original video maker ( not the republishers like this guy ) for $59c a view... it had 14m views!
Sure some of the videos won't have any music. But I bet he's already been told to take stuff down and not responded.
Music and Videos within the Keynotes are the issue. Apple will have been pursued by the relevant Music fee collecting agencies for payment. It's likely that Apple alone are allowed to host and play the music / videos or any other 3rd party stuff.
Apple themselves will have been served a DMCA notice about this from the PRS or ASCAP etc.
And coudl have amounted to a huge amount. one such your tube video had a music video embedded and the PRS pursued the original video maker ( not the republishers like this guy ) for $59c a view... it had 14m views!
Sure some of the videos won't have any music. But I bet he's already been told to take stuff down and not responded.
In my opinion, it still benefits Apple to have that content available. Their keynotes are great and they're basically long commercials for their products.
Possible reasons;
As Apple TV+ lacks contents they gonna make an Apple exclusive series out of Apple keynotes where tech gurus gonna talk one hour about each keynote.
Or
Apple don't want people to remember that keynote presentations were far better a decade ago than now.
As Apple TV+ lacks contents they gonna make an Apple exclusive series out of Apple keynotes where tech gurus gonna talk one hour about each keynote.
Or
Apple don't want people to remember that keynote presentations were far better a decade ago than now.
Because it’s their content. Why would you want someone presenting your content and profiting off it? And it doesn’t matter if he’s profiting or not. Apple of course wants control over it.
Shutting down a channel for Apple enthusiast / the most loyal customers is pretty weird
Apple has issued multiple takedown orders for a popular YouTube channel amongst Apple fans that archived past WWDC keynotes.
The channel owner, Brendan Shanks, shared the news on Twitter alongside screenshots from YouTube with notices of the DMCA takedown orders. The channel, "Apple WWDC Videos," contained hundreds of videos of past WWDC keynotes and is now disabled after it received three copyright violations.
On Apple Podcasts, Apple does provide a catalog of past keynotes and events to watch, with the oldest being the original iPhone's launch in 2007, but it's not a comprehensive archive. Shank says he's in the process of uploading the original video files from the channel to Internet Archive.
Article Link: Apple Issues Takedown Order for Popular YouTube Channel That Archived WWDC Keynotes
