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i've been saying this for years, that the copyright system is the problem, not youtube, but always get downvoted here for saying that. Maybe you guys will listen to tom scott?

Yes, I agree, I've been saying this for a while now. The U.S. Copyright laws need to be radically revamped in order to be compatible with the Internet and other aspects of the 21st Century and the amount of time copyright last after the artist's death needs to be shortened. The methods through which copyright is enforced should be simplified and improved and the copyright all laws need to as much vagueness as possible removed as nothing good can come from a law that can be interpreted in completely different ways depending almost entirely on the interpreter's mindset and core beliefs.

So yeah, Youtube's copyright claims system is a necessary evil because of how ridiculously outdated and in some places, outright rigged for abuse, the U.S. Copyright laws are.

Also, Sonny Bono should have never been allowed to pass his copyright law as he essentially used his power as a Congressman to alter the law to benefit his business.