re: Company makes AI covers of a girl's music, copyright strikes original singer

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All I know is youtube's copyright claims should be shut down, it is abused too much.

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Think about it from YouTube’s perspective though. Would you rather deal with pissed off content creators (who already agreed to your TOS anyway) or deal with DMCA lawsuits from the RIAA, MPAA, etc?

It’s shitty because a single false takedown hurts an individual content creator way more than a single missed case of infringement hurts the copyright owner. At the same time, I can understand why YouTube would err on the side of takedowns from a risk perspective.

I don’t know what the solution is.

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The solution should be making it harder for the music companies to make claims. Their greed is out of control and impacting many content creators. Youtube should not blanket let them create claims against fair use and place the burden 100% on content creators. Record labels should be forced to show proof of their claim.

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I agree in principle, but it’s not just a YouTube problem. It’s a DMCA problem.

The DMCA gives web hosts immunity from infringement claims provided they aren’t aware of the infringing content. So if someone sends Google a DMCA claim and they don’t act on it, they open themselves up to liability for copyright infringement.

For the host, the potential consequences of ignoring a valid claim are much greater than the consequences of a bogus takedown. The copyright trolls no this, and they gave virtually no consequences for issuing false infringement notices.

I think solving the problem would probably require some sort of legislative (or at minimum regulatory) action. Again I don’t know the exact solution but I don’t think it’s something that can be fixed by YouTube/Google in a vacuum.