Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and other celebrities are trying to get YouTube to change their copyright rules.
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00:00 I know I may be wealthy and privileged and attractive, but really you don't know how bad I actually have it.
00:05 So a bunch of big mainstream musicians are signing a petition to try to get YouTube to change their copyright rules.
00:11 Because it's not enough for them to be rich and famous, they want to be richer and famous-er.
00:15 *Ding*
00:16 At the moment people are not able to post copyrighted content,
00:20 and if they do, then the copyright owner has the option to file a claim and then get the video taken down.
00:26 Which seems fairly reasonable to me.
00:30 But because no system is perfect, it doesn't catch the copyrighted material 100% of the time.
00:36 So there are songs being posted to YouTube and then getting shared without the artist seeing any of the money that would normally be due to them.
00:44 And so naturally they are outraged and have taken to signing a petition to show just how outraged they are.
00:50 *Protestors chanting*
00:53 People who have signed the petition already include Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Pharrell, Fleetwood Mac, The Black Keys,
01:00 Pink, Ryan Adams, and Garth Brooks.
01:02 Tom York, master of subtlety, even said Google has "seized control of art like Nazis during the Second World War."
01:11 Let's see what the rest of humanity has to say about it though.
01:14 Gavin, it's not really about changing laws in favor of large corporations, it's corporation versus corporation.
01:20 Roman, don't we have bigger sh*t to worry about than millionaires who feel like crying because they're feeling ripped off?
01:25 Al D Meola, this is what I've been talking about for the past many years. It's almost criminal what they've been getting away.
01:31 Was he murdered in the middle of writing this comment?
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