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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/cadev/dev.celebrityaccess.net/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6119(Hypebot<\/a>) — A recent use of Sublime\u2019s \u201cSanteria\u201d by a cop in a effort to trigger Instagram\u2019s sensitive copyright filter is not a new tactic, but has some ominous implications for the future.<\/p>\n Guest post by\u00a0Katharine Trendacosta<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Someone tries to livestream their encounters with the police, only to find that the police started playing music. In the case of a\u00a0February 5 meeting<\/a>\u00a0between an activist and the Beverly Hills Police Department, the song of choice was Sublime\u2019s \u201cSanteria.\u201d The police may not got no crystal ball, but they do seem to have an unusually strong knowledge about copyright filters.<\/p>\n The timing of music being played when a cop saw he was being filmed was not lost on people. It seemed likely that the goal was to trigger Instagram\u2019s over-zealous copyright filter, which would shut down the stream based on the background music and not the actual content. It\u2019s not an unfamiliar tactic, and it\u2019s unfortunately one based on the reality of how copyright filters work.<\/p>\n Copyright filters are generally more sensitive to audio content than audiovisual content. That sensitivity causes real problems for people performing, discussing, or reviewing music online. It\u2019s a problem of mechanics. It is easier for filters to find a match just on a piece of audio material compared to a full audiovisual clip. And then there is the likelihood that a filter is merely checking to see if a few seconds of a video file seems to contain a few seconds of an audio file.<\/p>\n It\u2019s part of why playing music is a better way of getting a video stream you don\u2019t want seen shut down. (The other part is that playing music is easier than walking around with a screen playing a Disney film in its entirety. Much fun as that would be.)<\/p>\n The other side of the coin is how difficult filters make it for musicians to perform music that no one owns. For example,\u00a0classical musicians<\/a>\u00a0filming themselves playing public domain music\u2014compositions<\/em>\u00a0that they have every right to play, as they are not copyrighted\u2014attract many matches. This is because the major rightsholders or tech companies have put many examples of copyrighted\u00a0performances\u00a0<\/em>of these songs into the system. It does not seem to matter whether the video shows a different performer playing the song\u2014the match is made on audio alone. This drives lawful use of material offline.<\/p>\n Another problem is that people may have licensed the right to use a piece of music or are using a piece of free music that another work\u00a0also<\/em>\u00a0used. And if that other work is in the filter\u2019s database, it\u2019ll make a match between the two. This results in someone who has all the rights to a piece of music being blocked or losing income. It\u2019s a big enough problem that, in the process of writing\u00a0our whitepape<\/a>r on YouTube\u2019s copyright filter, Content ID, we were told that people who had experienced this problem had asked for it to be included\u00a0specifically<\/em>.<\/p>\n Filters are so sensitive to music that it is very difficult to make a living discussing music online. The difficulty of getting music clips past Content ID\u00a0explains the dearth of music commentators on YouTube<\/a>. It is common knowledge among YouTube creators,\u00a0with one saying<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthis is why you don\u2019t make content about music.\u201d<\/p>\n Criticism, commentary, and education of music are all areas that are legally protected by fair use. Using parts of a thing you are discussing to show what you mean is part of effective communication. And while the law does not make fair use of music more difficult to prove than any other kind of work, filters do.<\/p>\n YouTube\u2019s filter does something even more insidious than simply taking down videos, though. When it detects a match, it allows the label claiming ownership to take part or all of the money that the original creator would have made. So a video criticizing a piece of music ends up enriching the party being critiqued. As one music critic explained:<\/p>\n Every single one of my videos will get flagged for something and I choose not to do anything about it, because all they\u2019re taking is the ad money. And I am okay with that, I\u2019d rather make my videos the way they are and lose the ad money rather than try to edit around the Content ID because I have no idea how to edit around the Content ID. Even if I did know, they\u2019d change it tomorrow. So I just made a decision not to worry about it.<\/p>\n