Can I just say that I fucking love these longer form videos. The wait may be longer but the payoff is definitely worth it


Ending the series with thought provocking facts and thick as a brick in the soundtrack when talking about copyright infrigment is golden. please don't leave the platform mr. Lemon we still need you ❤


Youtube needs to adapt to the internet or the internet will adopt a new website that isn't total shit.<br>Content creators should all pitch together to make an alternative to youtube. Even I as a viewer are more than willing to help out with this

Youtube needs to adapt to the internet or the internet will adopt a new website that isn't total shit.
Content creators should all pitch together to make an alternative to youtube. Even I as a viewer are more than willing to help out with this


Glad i was able to watch this video before it is inevitably and unfairly taken down


the long term Youtube community at large can easily boycott and find a new website, the problem is getting everyone on the same page , and not overwhelming the servers of whatever website.  a YouTube exodus would be a perfect way to end this decade.


I can’t wait until the day where Apple figured out a way to claim every single song with a sample from Logic Pro, the digital audio workstation that they bought.


Literally just got done with a class this semester about copyright , patents, and other general US laws that surround it.
My teacher is for copyright and such but dose think its pretty messed up (hes a boomer).
Though what i learned from that class was that copyright is tricky because yes it dose favor these massive corporations though if we were to get rid of it all together or change a lot of it it would FUCK over many small creators as well.
There is no good answer to copy right law at the moment until (as EmpLemon said) we get new people in the government who understand it, though even then I doubt it will be fixed at all.


I think that you should put your suggestions for overhauling YouTube's Copyright policies in a separate video or document so that it can be easily accessed. That way if YouTube executives, by some miracle, were to decide to actually do something about the system they could refer to your great ideas.


Beware. No law in the history of man has ever stopped anyone from doing anything, that doesn't make those law pointless. That being said, current copyright laws ARE unreasonable!


One day, every possible arrangement of sounds imaginable will be illegal copyright.


It's honestly sort of depressing that in order for any actual legislative change regarding the internet to happen we literally have to wait for almost an entire generation to die out so their political seats can be replaced by more internet-savvy people.


Keep fighting the fight emp. Never give in. Never give up.


thanks! i'll never feel bad about pirating movies again!


Monstercat Gold is similar to what you've mentioned... $5/month and you get to download all songs and use like 90% of all releases from Monstercat on your videos without claim. (There's a list of releases that you can't use with the license, mainly because it involves other parties than Monstercat)


Too bad YouTube has the video streaming platform by the balls, no competition creates shitty products


Here’s a good rule, how about after the creator of an artwork dies of old age it goes into the public domain regardless if it was made after 1920-23.  Copyright laws have been manipulated to benefit music and media companies decades after the work was already made and everybody who worked on it have moved on already.


The law is 15 years behind the rest of the world, and that's when there 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 aggressive lobbying to stomp out the terror that is the prevalence of online independent artists.


This is so ridiculous that honestly it wouldn't surprise me if it changes before 2030, some people will get to power and will realize the common sense benefit of using common sense... Besides remembering all the cases of prohibition.<br> Stay strong Emp, your work is inspiring and amazing

This is so ridiculous that honestly it wouldn't surprise me if it changes before 2030, some people will get to power and will realize the common sense benefit of using common sense... Besides remembering all the cases of prohibition.
 Stay strong Emp, your work is inspiring and amazing


All copyright and intellectual property laws are absurd. It's pretty much threatening people that aren't doing anything wrong. Intellectual property in and of itself is absurd, since ideas are infinite and therefore you can't say they're property. It's a monopoly, one that you are forced to obey even if you don't consent or sign any contracts, and one that if you break, you can get extorted, if you resist to pay, arrested, and if you resist again, killed. It's an ethical absurdity, and unjustifiable in any way. And also, of course, it has tremendously negative practical effects, as emp shows in the video.


Yo this video series is dope. The abuse of DMCA by huge companies is a long standing issue. Companies like UMG and Sony are just as corrupt as the big record labels and radio stations... they all engage in secret deals with Youtube, allowing them to make their own rules. They're allowed to change the rules whenever, or just disregard them completely.

The old fashioned music industry is going the way of Blockbuster and cable news. Why else would these "billion-dollar companies" need to steal 5 or 10 bucks from some indie musician Youtube?

The problem isn't Copyright Law - it's the ABUSE of Copyright law causing our current situation. Change the laws all you want, but as long as we keep using their services and literally paying them to restrict our free expression, we have no one but ourselves to blame.


>graduates from copyright school
>literally graduates
Well played


I once got copyright claimed for a soundcloud song I added to a video of mine. The song I used, and the one I got claimed for were two different songs. The only similarity between the two was the beat. Which ironically, is a free, and copyright free beat.


i fucking love how well does poet and the painter work with that bit you put it in and how well you used geentle giant i your older vids


19:15 uh @emplemon, this may not be good for videos in the long run, certain licenses can expire or get revoked. This means if youtubers uses copyrighted material and goes inactive down the line, eventually the license gets revoked or expires, thus their video gets either ad-claim or worse, taken down.


We have been able to make the software industry, which used to be big corporation suing another big corporation after another, to be able to get together and improve the general welfare of software with Open Source Software. Hell, some open source licenses straight up allow you to make distributions of the software for free while still being profitable (Linux and Firefox come to mind). So then I ask you, why the hell can we not have something similar with copyright?


The human mind is built to remix current ideas like crazy until it becomes almost original this is how we create "original" ideas Vsauce did a video on this. And these mega companies want to police this so nobody can remix their butiful songs movies etc. wich will stop the making new ideas so it becomes impossible


18:40  I know you'll say this is stupid, because it really is, but the answer to this point is that the music/entertainment industry has separate licencing for live broadcasts and stream than it does for on-demand streams and videos.


Did you recently watch the everything is a remix documentary? I had to write an essay for my final over this same topic. You even go over the same points in the video


Here's an idea: Do 18:02 but make the company find, note, and prove that it's their property. That amount of effort will easily drop most copyright claims

Execpt for the fact. That thus will require taking it to court which will then require a lot of money for the case. Which as emplemon said is not a tangeble option for youtubers


hey Emps, just wanted to let you know that I will d̶̛̀ó̵̀w̶̸̧͘̕ņ̵͢l҉͘͝͝o͘a̢͝ḑ͡͞ this video, not to post it on my channel or something like that, but to archive it, show it to my friends on a screen and maybe torrent it should it become unavailable on the future


Shame EmpLemon didn't spare a few minutes to mention Creative Commons, CopyLeft, or more permissive licensing. There isn't a lot of content available under CC licenses now, but encouraging more artists and creators to put their original work out under licenses that permit remixing and fair use can help build the foundation of a world where Remix Culture can thrive in the future.


This is why we as a gamers need to rise up


Years ago I spent days trying to figure out how to properly license a song and tracking down who to specifically contact is a nightmare. And what I found out is 15 grand will give you a 1 year license. 1 YEAR and you have to renew or take it down its awful.


The copyright laws were meant to protect artists, now all they are doing is helping megacorps exploit them


Its funny I found you off of complaining about a guy who was killing memes, but every other video you made is addressing something relevant to something I enjoy.


11:10 Does singing it in Spanish count?
Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if singing a song in a different language would get you in trouble


Just 3 min into your video and it's already a fucking masterpiece.


I thought Emplemon was doing alright but then I saw the damaged tattoo on his forehead so now I know he's damaged

@giuliano gabriel montti cheretti how to heart comments on other people's comments sections wait this isnt Google

lol i didn't know that you are here v: hello my favorite jojo ytp youtuber :)


Jobs of the future:
Corporate Copyright Enforcers
IT Copyright Content Specialist
Corporate Copyright Digital Forensics

Typical Pattern:
Introduce new prohibitive legislation
Ill-planned enforcement


Reminds me A bit of Random Crits in TF2.<br>A system outdated due to better maps, weapons and players, while the only people who want to keep them are the nostalgic boomer players from 2009 who think it'll break the game.

Reminds me A bit of Random Crits in TF2.
A system outdated due to better maps, weapons and players, while the only people who want to keep them are the nostalgic boomer players from 2009 who think it'll break the game.


When Susan was talking with the ftc she had to communicate to people what youtube is with people who don't even have a cellphone.


What's stopping everyone from blocking the main culprits of the copyright exploiting?


9/10<br>A 10/10 would have been a Raid Shadow Legends Ad instead. RustyCage knows what's up

9/10
A 10/10 would have been a Raid Shadow Legends Ad instead. RustyCage knows what's up


Oh no they're coming to fix it all oh no-

Edit: I thought this was the one you said would be covering how to avoid copyright, then I remembered you already covered it. Still, you can think of it as what Disney whenever the public domain is about to end.


The issue with YouTube is bots don't do followup. I can't tell you how many times our music streams have gotten copyright claims from companies representing bands who've given us specific permission to use their music. Try explaining that to a bot ugggh


You might be interested in looking up the CASE Act of 2019. It would allow copyright claims to go to a small claims court rather than the big, expensive Federal courts that adjudicate claims under the current law. It would allow creators to more easily make fair use arguments and get judgements in their favor. It was passed by the U.S. House but the Senate vote has been pending for a few months.


Honestly, to solve the problem, we need to be a little more radical than being copyright abolitionist.


The radio station part is weird for me as there's a local station in my town that plays 0 ads 24/7


I came up with the idea of hitting the "reverse audio" button on sm64 endless stairs before you did and by my estimation you owe me 10 million dollars


14:55 side note: this is why watermarking memes is stupid. You created something that people like so much that they are trying to steal it.


Your commentary playlist is at the bottom of my library, YouTube is definitely censoring you


and folk wonder why I unironically support pirate politics.


Companies can't keep up with the internet so they have to do shit like this I assume.


Fun fact:I got copywrited for using dreamscape on a video from years ago today


Emp and Historians video in the same day? I feel like this was planned out 🤔


The face reveal we needed, but not the one we deserve.


it's funny I hate ads, but love memes.  I find more corporate media through memes to enjoy than ads, and they are killing memes, the one way I find new content.


just saying, i your channel is the whose videos i look forward to the most, emp.


16:08 "war on this, prohibition of that ... didnt prevent what they were trying to prevent"

Welcome to the gun control argument.


This man references smash bros, pink floyd, AND publix. You're alright emp, you're alright


What if I hate media companies and want them to lose money?


dude, you should became an author or journalist


+EmpLemon
I am 100% supporting the idea that copyright system needs to be revamped to suit modern day,however you seem to mislead ppl and/or not fully understand the copyright system that is currently in place yourself.

Happy Birthday song is in public domain*, however specific *performances of that song could be copyrighted, same goes for other old music mentioned in the video.
In that regards, it's a great video, I wish that something like flat fee for licensing copyrighted material would exist as well as splitting revenue based on how much copyrighted material was used... but this opens a huge Pandora-box that everyone is afraid to touch as of rn.

+EmpLemon
I am 100% supporting the idea that copyright system needs to be revamped to suit modern day,however you seem to mislead ppl and/or not fully understand the copyright system that is currently in place yourself.

*Happy Birthday song* is in *public domain*, however specific *performances* of that song could be copyrighted, same goes for other old music mentioned in the video.
In that regards, it's a great video, I wish that something like flat fee for licensing copyrighted material would exist as well as splitting revenue based on how much copyrighted material was used... but this opens a huge Pandora-box that everyone is afraid to touch as of rn.


Suing musical acts over "nicking" other people's works actually predates sampling in rap: there's even a separate Wikipedia page about Led Zeppelin's legal troubles in this regard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Led_Zeppelin_songs_written_or_inspired_by_others
When you record a cover song you owe some  royalties to the copyright holder.  (The most famous examples of this are "Yesterday" and until recently, "Happy Birthday To You")  You also need to add the appropriate credits: when Hendrix covered "All Along the Watchtower" he also named Bob Dylan as the songwriter and stated the song's copyright belonged to Dylan's ASCAP company,.  Early rap samples didn't do this until rap became big business, and then everyone wanted their piece of the pie.


You didn't get a Cent for that never ever video? Dude. Lmk what I can do to help that series is the best series on youtube


No mention of the guy that embraced clown world and copyright claimed his own videos, allowing him to at least get a cut of the monetization, and have other channels be immediately monitized right from zero subs? Not in the context of "Look, it can work!" but in the context of "Shit is so broken, this is what you have to do, to get anything resembling a fair shake"


at 11:11 it sais that you cannot sing the "happy birthday to you" lyrics for profit without paying royalties.


correct me if im wrong but according to the information in this video in the court of law you can clearly appeal to previous examples of the alleged actions of the company that is suing you, as far as being the owner or not it will raise a valid concern in the court of law when you compare 2 criminals but with one having a bigger track record of the same crime.
therefore in any rational world unless both sides want to get sued for the % of money they likely received from the crime big corporations will always be on the losing end of that, which should lead the 2 parties to negotiate a settlement on the matter with the sued being on the winning end because he has less profit so almost any settlement should be fair to the individual creator.
I mean, I dont know how the law works in that regard and I tend to think that the "Law" in that regard is just another company selling itself to the highest bitter which is why I tend to think that on the grounds of the information in this videos companies should be sued way more than individual creators and not only that but for a company to sue will be the same as amazon operating at a loss of profits like during the economic crisis which is a lose-lose scenario to any big company unless they seek to plunder all their money to sue a few hundred individuals at best given a good lawyer presentation on their end.
so how come this thing is even a threat to individual creators?

because do you really think the average creator has time and money and such to sue them


Sounds like unregulated free market with extra steps


21:28 Big corps drinking up the 39 cent revenue from a small YouTube channel


Only thing I took away from this is emp likes my favourite band


The root cause is capitalism. You could take down youtube the next website will do the exact same. Advertiser have the money, they have power. That is how it works around here.<br>If you are not willing to change that, then you are not willing to take action to make online video service ethical.

The root cause is capitalism. You could take down youtube the next website will do the exact same. Advertiser have the money, they have power. That is how it works around here.
If you are not willing to change that, then you are not willing to take action to make online video service ethical.


Copyright law? Sounds more like modern gulag to me.


tbh when susan became youtubes ceo youtube started to get fucked up


1998’s copyright act is called the Sonny Bono Act? That sounds like the type of name a clown would have.


9:41
I see that thumbnail.  I hope you got my email about STAR_ before YT DMs got shut down...


Well, he finally lost the last grain of sanity. Least it's funny cringe.


You turn more cringe with each video. And I can't help but watch and enjoy. Dingus. Cuuuujjj nntttt


>No special thanks to mumkey<br>The betrayal continues

>No special thanks to mumkey
The betrayal continues


One day a person will for president to reform Copyright law and he or she will win in a landslide while Hollywood cries to sleep.


the only thing in this video that i think is actually bad is the fact that public domain has progressed 3 years in the last 40. in a world where the copyright ended after  23 years, big corporations absolutely should exert their full influence over individual artists to squeeze every possible penny out of them. the man's comment about breaking reasonable laws is correct, the laws just aren't reasonable. also i like your 3 steps to fix the system. though, i think that certain companies/artists should have the right to back out of the flat license and negotiate their own price. they'd just need to put the name of their song on a warning list so youtubers know that their flat license doesn't get them rights to it.


My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.


Was that Logan Paul you snuck into that black and white image near the beginning?! LOL. I appreciated this series for sure. Thanks for putting in the work.


<b>we will sue you for even listening to a song</b>

*we will sue you for even listening to a song*


13:11 I just listened to TaAB the first time two nights ago and wondered if you had used it. Heh


That instrumental of thick as a brick in there, I did not expect that. Nice.


Why are we still talking about fair use in 2020?


Lol my first video was claimed within minutes of uploading

Tho tbf I dont care and I just flat out used some very claimable music

Minister of Propaganda and Indoctrination


Tbh they say pirating movies and music hurts the creators no it hurts the corporations more than the creators


HOLY SHIT THE PROFESSOR IS IN THIS VIDEO


Emp, if you decide to jump ship from YT, I'm jumping too


i missed Jake Paul in that lynching photo the first time 😳😳😳


Inb4 literal mass shootings from artists pissed at the copyright system


8:15 CONCENTRATION
HAHA GOOD JOKE
DISNEY BEING ANTISEMITIC

even if it was a hoax.

BrainCoolo what, about the anti-semitism thing? No. It was hinted on their wiki that he was making content that somewhat resembled or involved that of the sort.


Every song is on Spotify? None of my demos are or ever will be on there and Danzig's albums Blackacidevil, Satan's Child & I:Luciferi are not on there. Neither is anything by Samhain or any original releases from Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids. That's just naming a very small amount but what my point is is that EVERY SONG EVER CREATED is not on Spotify.


The end times are here

komm susser tod starts playing

The end times are here

*komm susser tod starts playing*

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@JOD I see. Have fun in your journey of commenting

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bruh copyright laws are made by Boomers? Cringe!


Nobody

YouTube copyright system : IM THE JOKAH BABY


never thought i would see the joker at the gators stadium


EmpLemon lives in Gainesville FL!! I've been in the same town has home THE WHOLE TIME


This is why SiIvagunner is so liked. It’s like Youtube poop for music.

An_Annoying_Cat --- That's because Content ID system has harder time detected, if music belongs to Rightholder, plus the fact that he didn't monetize his video makes even more harder.

Don't forget Triple q! That bombs over Skullgirls is fire! And Knuckles mania knuckles and knuckles is hilarious.


3:22 this is what family guy will look like in 2014


Your new surmane is

*Anticopyright One*


Capitalism: Privatization and unregulated companies/markets are healthy for the market and society

The market and society:

Problem is the market and society themselves aren't healthy, they're led/run by plagues rn.

@Yes I will I am can’t wait even if you are right, and it count as a regulation, is a bad one that doesnt affect big companies , in my original comment i explicitly put COMPANIES AS A HOLE are unregulated in their power, so even if you are correct, 80% of my argument still holds up.

@Yes I will I am can’t wait if you don't understand, think about it this way

There is not regulation in how much money the can steal from you.

They can suit you just because THEY THINK the ip look similar to the material you use.

There is not limit of how much star-war-size ips you can own, this mean that if you own marvel and lucal films you can own 90% of the market for ever.

And i clearly write "unrelated COMPANIES", companies can do whatever they want for whatever reason capitalist boomers say. Not because ONE ASPECT that affects ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE is regulated, it means there are real regulations as a hole.

@Yes I will I am can’t wait no it isnt, to start, because of soft regulations, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. have become a shit hole were they can steal your personal information, your money, your freedom of speech, etc. Because "they are the owners and they can do whatever they want".

In the specific case of copyright, still not real regulation, because is only regulating everyone who it isn't a bilionare companie.


Jesus his voice is 20 but in his joker costume he looks 30


what movie was that where he was ripping his face off


Maybe we will see some positive changes when all the boomers retire

Retire? Some of these boomers have made sure they keep their power position until death. We're talking 50 year olds that might live 30 more years.
They also have people of the same mindset lined up to take their place. Most of them aren't even young, they're 40+.
It's a never ending pile of trash.

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Are you going to do a video on that interview matpat had with Susan


Copyright and Patent protections are extremely important, and they should be enforced strictly. (The products of a person's mind are the property of that person, more or less, and the mind that produced them should be compensated for their use)<br>However, I agree that current copyright laws take it too far, and are used more often to enforce corporate greed. I personally think that the life of the author is long enough. Any longer than that is no longer protecting the creator of the work, but whoever buys it after their death. (Maybe the author could pass it down to their family through his/her will, but author's life plus 70 years for a corporation is more than ridiculous.)

Copyright and Patent protections are extremely important, and they should be enforced strictly. (The products of a person's mind are the property of that person, more or less, and the mind that produced them should be compensated for their use)
However, I agree that current copyright laws take it too far, and are used more often to enforce corporate greed. I personally think that the life of the author is long enough. Any longer than that is no longer protecting the creator of the work, but whoever buys it after their death. (Maybe the author could pass it down to their family through his/her will, but author's life plus 70 years for a corporation is more than ridiculous.)

the life of the author is way TOO long. did you watch past the first 5 seconds?


The sad thing is there is no need for them to change the law. What congressmen is going to spend their time to propose laws that reduce copyright power? Even the more righteous ones wouldn't waste their time on it .

And companies have no incentive to change it. As far as I can see, they get all the benefits with little downside except for the occasional bad press when they go too far.

The only reason music and movie streaming became a legitamite thing old studios now do is bc they saw huge losses in sales due to pirating or competitive streaming services and they needed to adapt.

But until copyright somehow causes them profit loss or it becomes a bigger issue in the public eye nothing will change. Even the Let it Go situation, Disney bullied their way out of it even though they basically created the laws that allowed them to get sued.

And consumers supported Disney and had their backs on it. And even with all the content creators who get hurt by unfair use of copyright, there's no real alternative to post their content so YouTube doesn't have to change much either.

There's unfortunately no incentive to change anything in the foreseeable future and it's a bummer.


I'm gonna have nightmares with that rhino taking a shit.


Can't wait for everyone's favourite pessimist to complain about Youtube for half an hour <3


damn its almost like capitalism isnt a good system

@Jabberwockybird ah, yes, the only two systems of government that exist, "let people have child slaves" or "literal dictatorship"

@hbag then I guess we should adopt a tyrannical system and just let the government turn us into their own slaves

@Jabberwockybird yeah nah free market is just capitalism without any safeguards id rather not have my kids kidnapped and sold into slavery

Ya, it's like a Free Market system would be better


Two uploads within the same month? What is this?!


Materialists are the root of many problems.


Monopolies are the worst.

We'd love a better platform but it isn't coming anytime soon.

Well Vimeo and Dailymotion exist, but they are fucking terrible.


Ight imma copyright Helium. See ya plebs.


Is that Ben Hill Griffin stadium? I wonder if I’ve seen you around Gainesville


Removed for bullying Corporate Conglomerates


is that jethro tull I´m picking up in the background?


omg you go to UF?!?!?! I wish I knew you~!


Stop lying we all know your real name is electro magnetic pulse lemon


I don't understand. Why do you think Entrance of the Gladiators
 is not public domain? It was published 1897.


I recognize thick as a brick by jet hero Tull. Nice


Who's the guy with the shades on the green scrolling text TV background?


Of course corporations want to defend their own interests! Its the government that shouldnt allow it, as its the one entity with power to enforce such things


i have 20 something subscribers and i'm not making money off of ads anyways so who cares if i just blatantly use copyrighted music over the entire video? nobody, that's who


Copyright laws fucked up BrawlBRSTMSX 3.


And that's why corporate greed should be considered unlawful.

@Raymunator And the root problem is MONEY.

@Alexandre Vachon It is, but tell me, what can we do about it? Corporations literally change laws to acommodate their needs.

@Raymunator So why isn't it considered unlawful?

Corporate greed is literally the reason why slavery existed, it's beyond unlawful, it's a source of human evil.


What happened to spongebob ytp do you know how to unblock it


im on shrooms dude and I really didnt ask for this

ok im like 20 minutes in and i gotta say your vids are like tailor made for me


You still can't really make out his facial features.


Is that thick as a brick in the background? 16:30


I love how YouTube manages to spark more chaos before you even have time to finish your series, the bantz have been banned too


Because I’m such a big fan of YTPs, ever since way back in the day, I’ve known about this problem for years. Gigantic media companies are just terrible honestly and our government is probably not going to do much about it for a very long time.


Yes! I love these videos. I had know idea what people were talking about when they said that the copyright system is garbage until watching these.

Very informative and entertaining!

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This is gradually becoming one of the best series on Youtube. Ever. I'm so glad I've been subscribed for so long.

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Emp. Please DONT STOP making these videos. You have an enormous target on your back and have had one for months now, and it's why companies flock to your videos like flies on a turd with copyright claims. It's proof that it's the last thing they want. Keep it up.


Thick as a Brick , nice. 👌🏻
Definitely a contender for the anthem of Copyright law.

_Thick as a Brick_ , nice. 👌🏻
Definitely a contender for the anthem of Copyright law.


I am a copyright attorney. It's my job. I agree with damn near everything you have said in this series.


Content creators need to keep culture jamming alive.

I mean, what is a YouTube Poop other than culture jamming through video editing?


I find it really scary that media corporation can extend the copyright law in favor of their intrest


I love your channel so much!! Please keep complaining about YouTube.


This copyright thing is literally evil lmao. I am laughing but I still breathe in society.


My lil sis (age 15) says every creator should go somewhere else because Youtube really doesn't has the creators' best interests in mind.<br>I agree with her, honestly. We all need to let this website die. But how? How could we do it?

My lil sis (age 15) says every creator should go somewhere else because Youtube really doesn't has the creators' best interests in mind.
I agree with her, honestly. We all need to let this website die. But how? How could we do it?


Excellent video, really loved the pacing!


Okay but hear me out Emp: I think the majority of your fans currently have enjoyed the direction you've taken with the channel and are all for it. I personally do, a lot. You seem to be quite literally the ONLY person who cares enough about the truth and about the site(A lot of people care but not as much as you do) to go into such detail and do so much research that you unearth a very damming truth that flips something on top of its head entirely. Your leafyishere video. Everyone though Ian killed Leafy's channel, but with the substantial evidence you provided from your research, you revealed that it's more likely than not that Youtube themselves targeted Leafy and silenced him under the radar and used the content cop as the perfect disguise in order to do it. And we all fell for it. But not you. You dug up that truth, and I absolutely love that, You're always teaching me new things with these " Rants " you do(I'd call them moreso informative videos). So please, never stop. Keep doing what you do, I'll always be here for it, bro.


Copyright Law: Do I look like a clown to you?<br>Emp: Maybe!

Copyright Law: Do I look like a clown to you?
Emp: Maybe!


Really good video. I'd like to add btw that the exact same issue that's crippling the rap industry is the same one that's plaguing genres like Vaporwave and Future Funk and stifling the growth of those scenes in the overall music industry. For all intensive purposes, plunderphonics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderphonics ) is entirely illegal and 100% unviable for becoming a massively successful artist UNLESS you can afford to pay royalties for samples, despite...

1) your talent with remixing and distorting samples
2) the nature of plunderphonics in general within the vaporwave and future funk genres
3) how utilizing warped samples plays into your other skills as a musical artist

Being a vaporwave or future funk artist is almost always synonymous with being a copyright smuggler, which is pretty fucked up.

Also, fuck you Jesus. Unban Appre. :^)

Really good video. I'd like to add btw that the exact same issue that's crippling the rap industry is the same one that's plaguing genres like Vaporwave and Future Funk and stifling the growth of those scenes in the overall music industry. For all intensive purposes, plunderphonics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderphonics ) is entirely illegal and 100% unviable for becoming a massively successful artist UNLESS you can afford to pay royalties for samples, despite...

1) your talent with remixing and distorting samples
2) the nature of plunderphonics in general within the vaporwave and future funk genres
3) how utilizing warped samples plays into your other skills as a musical artist

Being a vaporwave or future funk artist is almost always synonymous with being a copyright smuggler, which is pretty fucked up.

_Also, fuck you Jesus. Unban Appre. :^)_


omg i hadn't realized  how similar patents should be to copyright. one's taking way too damn long


19:26 sounds good for regular content creators but how would they know when people just tried to make money off the song itself? via something like direct upload

Probably detect how much of the video audio is just those songs.


Every time I hear the joke about the happiest place on Earth, I just think about "I spent the next three years in a POW camp."


If someone sends you a copyright claim so you want it done in a Chinese Court, underneath their copyright law you can practically use whatever you want that way.


I talked to Matt Lowne, I'm on his discord, you could tell it's really fucked up what he went through, and the fact that even the YT Music library is in danger is just sad at this point... For shame YouTube, their new slogan should be "Broadcast Yourself, but only what we want you to."


Copyright law is just another reason why I happily ride a grand ship to sail the seas.


I think copyright should be something along the lines of how long the company is using it, then like 21 years after. This gives company the ability to still use their characters/ideas then when this company falls out, if ever, then the people can use.


Appreciate the use of Jethro Tull also love the video its very well made


Great content as usual, just tone it down a notch with the loud bs next time, kinda hard to binge watch your shit like that mate.


Never thought I’d wish for my favorite site on the whole internet to die


Imagine if the game rogue was copyright by umg, then the whole rogue-like genre wouldn't exist.


You're right about all this. What can we do?


I keep wondering 90 years from now how will internet history be documented and archived, let alone the second biggest search engine in the planet.
It won't surprise me if this period of human culture gets forgotten and undermined like anything else from yesteryears.
Let's actually answer my question, now the preservation of internet culture is underwhelming at best. The majority users rely on the Way Back Machine, a site that does it's job well yet faces some bumps on the road particularly cause of how clunky it can be and how untapped it's potentials are.
We will never know when a piece of history vanishes forever, but it's most likely the cause of overlooking that history.
I imagine in the future a software that emulates (web 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, etc...) like with dated video games, but alas it is but a dream I treasure in mind.
Perhaps a revolution will do justice for the lacking privilege of online communication from our leader's part.


Ridge is a badass company. Thanks for supporting Gundam and Emp bros. Love you fuckers


Copyright law (and every other law and regulation in general) are created with the narrative that is to protect the small creator, but in reality the big companies that negotiate with the government for the creation of those laws since they will be the ones that benefit the most since is allow them to create big monopolies that wouldn't be possible on a free market.

If it wasn't for those big companies being able to o bargain with the government there would never be such thing as a copyright law since is ridiculous to own thought or an idea because it's not truly a property since several people can use an idea at the same time without taking away the right of the "owner" to use the idea


Wish more people talked about this, bc their is no way i can send something edgy like this to any congressman to try and participate in democracy.


So basically copyright wasnt even meant to protect ip's but was meant to make people more active and incentivise art and creativity.

But over time became a "way of life" because copyright protection periods lasted for a human lifetime because of corporate lifestyle?


Geriatric Trubo Boomers

I like this. Thank you for bringing this into the public domain.


Copyright reform and continued lifesupport for the Mickey Mouse copyright both require congressional action, and are therefore unlikely to occur until some time in the 2040s.


The copyright system is just clowning us.


The most important thing I learned was that Rusty Cage invented the Knife Game Song.


I swear, ex-youtube poopers make the best editors.


patent law is actually weighed against small creators as well. unless you have the money for a legal team to enforce it your patent isnt worth shit


What if we just bypass YouTube's monetization and ad system and stay with sponsorships


As a fellow humble content creator, the copyright landscape is one of the biggest jokes of the modern era. Think about it. So many creators in the future who'll toil away to try and flourish on platforms like this will essentially be forced to create SPECIFIC TYPES OF MEDIA if they even want to DREAM of earning a profit for all of their hard work. It's sickening, really. YouTube will soon be nothing but vlogs and content that doesn't try to risk breaking the edges of the creative cosmos, because if you do anything else, just prepare to be paid in pennies. Which is the biggest shame, because even though we (content creators) love to express our creative minds and entertain people, we also want to get paid and make better lives for ourselves eventually. Who doesn't?! Hopefully this series of videos get in front of the right pair of eyes, because it's golden. Thank you.

As a fellow humble content creator, the copyright landscape is one of the biggest jokes of the modern era. Think about it. So many creators in the future who'll toil away to try and flourish on platforms like this will essentially be forced to create *SPECIFIC TYPES OF MEDIA* if they even want to *DREAM* of earning a profit for all of their hard work. It's sickening, really. YouTube will soon be nothing but vlogs and content that doesn't try to risk breaking the edges of the creative cosmos, because if you do anything else, just prepare to be paid in pennies. Which is the biggest shame, because even though we (content creators) love to express our creative minds and entertain people, we also want to get paid and make better lives for ourselves eventually. Who doesn't?! Hopefully this series of videos get in front of the right pair of eyes, because it's golden. Thank you.


How do we know that Emplemon is in a downward spiral if he doesn't have it tattooed on his forehead?


Even further down the spiral we go. <br>Next stop, insanity.

Even further down the spiral we go.
Next stop, insanity.


Emp, answer me this. If I could show this trilogy to Suzan , what would you think ?


The patent system also  favors big corporations, unfortunately.


Rusty's defense didn't convince me.
I think the concept of intellectual property should be entirely removed from the law on a first amendment basis, and if necessary we should amend the constitution to prevent intellectual property from ever being a thing again.
Copyright and patents tell people what they can't do in a situation where nobody is directly harmed. It only exists to support monopolistic leeches on our capitalist system, and is responsible for much of the troubles in the modern world.


Didn't happy birthday recently become public domain. I remember hearing about some court case


You will not create. You will only consume.
Consume.
Consume.
Take your loyalty rewards points so you can consume more.


It's almost like regulating the private economy isn't a good thing


Entry of the Gladiators is not under copyright. The recording of it is. You can get recordings of it that are legal to use by going to IMSLP and finding the piece there. IMSLP provides free recordings and sheet music for classical music that's under public domain. All recordings there are found under the creative commons license.

Great vid btw, fuck copyright.


At this point we should just ditch copyright alltogether. If we leave some copyright then it will always lead to abuse.


I got a claim for using Ode to Joy which is a song by BEETHOVEN and based on a poem from the late 1700s. the system is genuinely awful


fun series now back to the Never ever series :D


I’ve had over 40 toasts in the last 30 days
Living currently, Dark Vegan (Johnny Test) should be in jail, he has no toast experience. He’s never been in the toast category.
I would just say; Stay tuned, The day of Reckoning will come, and the record will be set straight.


18:00 this could still be open to abuse with funny moments guy channels putting the clips inside a large envelope of black video so the copyrighted material is only a portion of the total "video" length.

Still better than nothing though


Fantano and EmpLemon join forces to sell sleek, minimalist wallets to the woke masses.


Beautiful, cool to see 78prof/45prof in this, his entire channel archive of years of uploads and thousands of songs was wiped this year or last year, and he just decided to start over. I’ve got a playlist of songs posted by him and it’s 235 removed videos in a single playlist, completely useless but I keep it in remembrance of what they did, some songs I couldn’t find that version of again until he reposted. It’s just an old man named Bob who’s passionate about music archiving and sharing his collection, not trying to make any money off of anyone.


great stuff man, keep it up. also, was this a face reveal?


I don't see anyone commenting this, so I think I'll post it myself. Although it is mentioned that "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted currently, this is not true. The copyright expired in 2017. However, it's still very annoying that it took from the 19th century until then to enter the Public Domain. ViHart made a video about it when it happened.
https://youtu.be/AVo0Q8G8tS8


This Christmas, fill your livingroom TV with 10 hours of EmpLemon sitting in front of a fire being angry at the copyright system :3

@Another Day Please never associate me with fascists, thank you :3


That was a nice power play you made there


To get around the clown song you just use the megalovania version


What frustrates me most is that the majority of people will never realize this is a symptom of the larger issue which is capitalism. If workers, or in this case content creators, wish to reclaim freedom over their labour, they can't just push for change in legislation, it has to be more... radical 😉.

@Chosen Rubric "They're pushing back against more progressive regulation" - bro they're literally pushing FOR regulation.
Progressive regulation also gets corrupted just the same.
"After all, profit margins are everything in capitalism, by any means necessary" - Not really. If you disobey the rules of capitalism for profit, you're not a capitalist. You're against the free market, you're against people making it, you're against competition. If I pay a gang (government) to close down every shop that doesn't belong to me or pays me protection money that's not capitalism. That's being a criminal.

@Titanium Rain But isn't that what they're doing? They're pushing back against more progressive regulation in order to incentivize their own profit margins. After all, profit margins are everything in capitalism, by any means necessary. Since government regulation is in place they might as well take advantage of it by making it the most optimal for themselves.

The natural tendencies of unregulated or poorly regulated capitalism has historically been monopolies; this is no different.

Capitalism is against legislation when it's bad for them. Similarly, socialism is against the amassing of wealth is gained at the expense of people, which it isn't always.

Cold take. Corporations literally lobbied to prevent capitalist competition. If this was about capitalism they'd be fighting regulation, not creating it.


You ever notice that thing between proportion and proportionality - Yeah, that ain't going away anytime soon. People are too weak...and pathetic.

You ever notice that thing between *proportion* and *proportionality* - Yeah, that ain't going away anytime soon. People are too weak...and pathetic.


thank you for including the hammer scene from Pink Floyd's The Wall


If I was a youtuber, couldn’t I create a dummy “strike account” and strike all my own videos to prevent anyone else from doing so?

That used to work, Jim Sterling did a video on it called "the copyright deadlock." But you might need help from a lawyer.....say, I wonder if one could make a business out of that. "I'll strike your video so no-one else can!".


Emp lemon I can't believe you would use jethro tull's copyrighted music in your videos constantly


I strongly approve the Thick as a Brick background music


Emplemon is the blackpiller we all need, but not the one we deserve


We live in a Copyright Claim<br>Bottom text

We live in a Copyright Claim
Bottom text


EmpLemon, like this when this video get demonitized. I just wanna know how long it will take


I wonder when will the stick figure enter copyright hell


We should get our local government officials to make bills that make copyright protection less strict

And to make copyright laws actually benefit the individuals and not the corporations. To Make it like patent laws and update it for the modern day and not for pre-internet days


i was sucking the yolk out of an egg as you played that part with the rino dumping.


What do you define as a "small artist" weren't many of the people who used rusty cages knife song smaller, less influential creators than he. Surely by that logic those creators should be protected from him


Bold of you to use Reactor's background music at the end


I really dont give a shit whether things I make are used in another persons things as long as I'm credited


The thing that bothers me most about the shitty policies and terrible algorithms for both copyright and demonetization is that they intentionally made it so both the claimants and the AI are dirty cops.

They shoot first, then ask questions later. Why not let people get all the ad money they can in a holding account, have a notification that it's in holding, and send the appropriate percentage of the monetization once it's done being in holding. I mean for god's sake how hard is it to run ads on content the ad maker disagrees with, thereby potentially making them more revenue, and denying payout of the creator if it's confirmed both not child friendly and in violation of terms? The AI could even do most of the work!


The Joker movie was the best thing to happen to this channel


say goodbye to your add revenue lemon boy


Watch him get copyright claimed for that clown song from the two seconds of marge singing it


I just hope Disney dosen't buy free music archive


You better give cypress hill your hard earned money!


you should copyright “geriatric turbo-boomers”


prohabition was about reducing male violence against their wives.

the alcohol was just a step on the path.

the alcohol wasnt the issues.

woman just get tired of being beat by drunk men.

Hipster Faye that created more issues, while not fixing the main issue


Is the Emp residence also the irl version of Beter's house?


Hey Emp, I’m trying to figure out the background music you used. You weren’t using Jethro Tull were you?


Geriatric Turbo Boomers is a stellar fucking way to think of the average congressman or woman.


I made a bunch of gaming videos with Beatles songs dispersed throughout, maybe some are still up? (IDK TBH because I give 0 shits about my uploads now) Anyway most of them are banned worldwide now even though I would upload, get a strike, edit it down and re-upload again to see what exactly the site deems appropriate, but the goal posts kept moving, so I do all this work editing and editing and i am not even monetizing my content, and they just keep taking down my videos.<br>So I learned how to make my own music, but how do I protect it? It seems like it'd be impossible to keep safe by myself with 0 funds to invest. And why would I want to support a site with my uploads, a site that deems it necessary to continuously destroy my work for no reason other than corporations are fucking greedy? So fuck it. Never uploading to this JOKE again. My music.

I made a bunch of gaming videos with Beatles songs dispersed throughout, maybe some are still up? (IDK TBH because I give 0 shits about my uploads now) Anyway most of them are banned worldwide now even though I would upload, get a strike, edit it down and re-upload again to see what exactly the site deems appropriate, but the goal posts kept moving, so I do all this work editing and editing and i am not even monetizing my content, and they just keep taking down my videos.
So I learned how to make my own music, but how do I protect it? It seems like it'd be impossible to keep safe by myself with 0 funds to invest. And why would I want to support a site with my uploads, a site that deems it necessary to continuously destroy my work for no reason other than corporations are fucking greedy? So fuck it. Never uploading to this JOKE again. My music.


0/10 didn't break into Rusty's house to make him do the knife game with the Ridge knife. Unsubbed, blocked, reported, and disliked


"...just use Rusty Cage's background music..."
Big oof.

"...just use *Rusty Cage's* background music..."
Big oof.

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The thing is, patents are only as valuable as the lawyer you hire to enforce it. Edit- in other words, fucking useless


I'll just say, that <b>why</b> is a very dumb...question...it's a rhetorical question, right? Oh...yeah...it was.

I'll just say, that *why* is a very dumb...question...it's a rhetorical question, right? Oh...yeah...it was.


Emp is becoming more and more like Mumkey Jones now with these skits. Mumkey was killed at around 500k subscribers. hmm


This explains why a lot of the music today sucks because everyone says music in the 70s and 60s was better maybe cuz the copyrights weren't as evil as they are now


IS THAT THICK AS A BRICK GOD EVERY VIDEO I LOVE YOUR TASTE MORE EMP


11:52 looks like the cleveland metro parks nature center stairs.


I pirate all my music and most of my movies and TV shows. I don't give a shit about copyright law.


Are people not making a competitor to YouTube?


Wait Entry of the Gladiators isnt in public domain yet? Wait when was it relea- *1897*. WHAT?


Can anyone explain me why we are still in this site instead of moving on to other platform?

No one else has the infrastructure and money to upkeep a site like this. If I remember right, Google loses money owning YouTube every year and it's almost impossible to start a fresh one in this day and age


This is why we don't need the soviet union.


Dude,  you live in Gainesville?  I had no idea,  but that's definitely devils millhopper and the stadium!


Hello, my name is claude, i am posting this from a lan house, its all i have left, i am a musician that sold all my instruments and furniture due to the biggest loss of money you can imagine. How i lost so much money you ask? Well i am the original composer from let it go, but when dumb girls started covering my song on youtube, no one was buying the original song anymore, because they rather listen it for free from those perfect 12 yo covers... So please, for the sake of poor Disney that has been on the black for 10 years, make copyright laws stricter!!1


um. no. Then, people would just have a black screen for 10 hours and the copyrighted video would just be the 1st 9 minutes.


Bro you should copyright the term tubroboomer $$$$


Daelin "Zeppi" Zeppeli (TheInsaneComputerGamer)


Wanna share your joker review with us? I assume u liked it, maybe you’re just memeing


More clowns after The Gamer From Mars’s new video...


am i the only one who recognizes 25 or 6 to 4 there?


This background song belongs to Mumkey Jones


Well... well well well...well well well well if it isn't our little droogie emp lemon


Didn’t mumkey make that song? Was that a joke?


I PAY MONEY FOR YOUTUBE RED AND NO COMMERCIALS YET THE YOUTUBERS THEMSELVES GIVE ME ADDS


I don’t understand happy birthday song was put into the public domain by the year 2014 liar

Also fun fact the company pay everyone back in the 14 million they made off it, you can check the story I got the info on at CBS news google birthday song rights


Pull up emplemon is mumkey jones damn  I never new I missed though mumkey


Ловушка Ютуба

Ловушка Ютуба


FYI  Happy Birthday is in the public domain.

btw i love the idea of paying in a yearly fee to be able to use popular music! That would solve so many problems!  Great video !


Next Video is hockey, I think. Somewhere in February

it'about melee and it's about to drop soon


Nosferatu is finally in the public domain.


I hate that things like this exist, it's too bad great creators like you get trampled into the dirt by corporate boomers.


We really, honestly, without a shadow of a doubt and in no uncertain terms live in a society.


I love purple "kiss" "kiss" and green! "kiss" "kiss"


I HAVE TWO COPYRIGHT STIKES AND ALL I HAVE IS 32 SUBS WTF MAN


People with the most money have the most influence in America because they can manipulate the those in charge.

That's the case in any country. That's a natural part of life. No government system can avoid that. Not even communism


Im glad someone else shares my fustration


Ridge seems like a pretty cool company, They sponsored Tomatoanus and gave him the promo code /anus<br>Apparently they found it really funny.

Ridge seems like a pretty cool company, They sponsored Tomatoanus and gave him the promo code /anus
Apparently they found it really funny.


As soon as I can afford to I'm buying that wallet with your link love your vids!


Happy birthday is no longer umder  copyright.


A great example of this copyright abuse are the Game Awards. Apparently WMG took down the whole VOD on Youtube in less than 10 hours after the stream ended. When i head over to twitch to see it the copyrighted part (and some other stuff) gets muted. The only thing possibly containing copyrighted Music would have been from a less an 2 minute Trailer. In a 4 Hour stream. The following part is only speculation but wouldnt the Company who made the trailer own the rights to the song? And if TGA has the rights to show the trailer therefor have the rights to play the song in that context?


I loved this series, it's a wonderful mix of good editing and showing the pure stupidity of the current copyright system and the companies that exploit the system to dick down content creators who dare use 3 seconds of anything


Don’t have much to add; just want to let you know this series has been great. Your channel is a stand-out example of what a YouTube channel should be.


Man, I remember when I first saw a few emplemon vids. They were some funny videos about jokes and remixes of shows. However as I grew older and moved away from the hose videos I stumbled back upon the same joke merchant I once remembered for making silly remixes... but now he too had matured.

People may not like your new content, whatever their reason maybe I gotta say man I love your content. Be it your documentary content or your issues based one. Maybe I’ve grown more political and as such my interest in the goings on of things I don’t know about has grown. But keep up the good work


these bring me a righteous anger I love your work and the message you put through. amazingly well spoken and edited


Would like to just state that I find analysis of how copyright works on this platform fascinating, in that same sort of way that watching two trains on a collision course is. You keep making videos that you want to make, and your own cynical enthusiasm keeps them engaging - even on topics that I'd never research on my own. Thanks for the interesting commentary, Emp.


Thanks for actually making an informative video on the subject of copyright. I actually learned something unlike everyone else just ranting at a video hosting website.


It's nice that you can see his interest in prog rock growing with each new video's soundtrack.


The fact that you actually provide solutions is a great change of pace from most other rant videos.


Emp, you should work in YouTube. Seriously, you have a better perspective on internet culture than the turbo boomers running it


So, the final part is here, eh?

Thanks for it, Emperor Lemon.


PEOPLE OF SOCIETY! I love your joker type personality in this series, keep up the amazing videos, some of the best of this site!


Wish you were here is one of m favorite albums of all time, one of the reasons is because it attacks the music industry so harshly, and it deserves it. It will forever be topical as long as greed exists

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You should push this more into the public youtube eye
gain more of a following to this anti copyright movement

this video was amazing, im hopeful about the future with young adults doing more logical thinking and planning than people in power.


Damn bro the influx of capital into an art form completely cripples it? Who'd of thought.


Be careful, Emp. This video is harassment against YouTube. You don't want it to get removed.


That intro was fucking brilliant. Exactly why I'm subscribed to you and the bell is extremely rung.


Okay, everyone...<br>Now it's time to guess how long it'll take before this video gets unfairly copright claimed!

Okay, everyone...
Now it's time to guess how long it'll take before this video gets unfairly copright claimed!


There is one thing though I feel is important to consider when discussing copyright law that you didn't just miss but actively disregarded in your video. I agree with you in almost every way except that copyright law does not only need to protect independent artists, but also bigger corporations. Without copyright law, intellectual property wouldn't really be profitable which would discourage bigger corporations from making intellectual property and disincentivize individuals from pursuing a career in art, music, movies, etc.
It would make it so that pretty much the only people creating anything would be individual artists with a community strong enough to want to support the artist. That would mean that big-budget movies, tv-series and animated shows would basically cease to exist entirely since it wouldn't be a profitable business venture to invest in.
However, LIFETIME PLUS SEVENTY YEARS is LUDICROUS given what copyright law is trying to accomplish and to suggest that singing a song around a campfire is against copyright law is just beyond stupid.


Real talk tho, those suggestions you made for reforms at the end are pretty good, hopefully someone from youtube finds this video and takes those ideas into consideration


The end of this video operates under the premise that YouTube values its creators over corporations. Which it doesn't and hasn't.


honestly cant wait for the prohibition era of copyrighted content.


Great video and this isn't a big deal but at 6:12 it says that patents are valid for 17 years not 21.


Honestly shocked by those negative comments you showed. I'm amazed that anyone who ACTUALLY uses youtube could hold those views.


Does that mean new YouTube content creators shouldn't expect to earn any money?
Though I believe that if earning money is off the table, people will start making videos for the sake of simply using it as an outlet for their creativity.

Does that mean new YouTube content creators shouldn't expect to earn *any* money?
Though I believe that if earning money is off the table, people will start making videos for the sake of simply using it as an outlet for their creativity.


Happy Birthday To You simply got "lucky" (or rather Warner's Music did when they bought out the publishers decades ago) by timing of it's initial copyright registering. It's actually back in the public domain now after it was proven Warner's only have the rights to a specific instrumental arrangement rather than the popular lyric version.

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I will try to get this video as many views as possible. I really hope the algorithm isn't Shadow Banning this video


Wow he legit called copyright law "reasonable"


This video is great. I got a copy claim on a video where I used a royalty free lofi song by some shmuck that sampled it. It got released but I still don’t get why the hell that “song” was copyrighted when it’s based on a free to use song.


I've been having the same problem. I've been using the song what's on the editing apps, but someone already claimed it. Well, I just make videos for fun.


Isn't it wonderful how you aren't allowed to own your culture?


this site has lost its way, it used to promote unique ideas and creators. nowadays it just promotes corporatism and censorship. thanks google, and thanks Susan.


You realize youtube isn't even following the law, right?  The law says using a small amount of a thing in a transformative way IS Fair Use.  Every single time youtube copyright claims a video that isn't a full reupload of the original, they're violating your rights under the law, at least if you live in the U.S.


In the grim darkness of the far future there is only copyright claims


You've got the issue that that dude from Black Mirror that ends up getting a show where he holds that sliver of glass up to his throat has.
You've ranted for so long that something has been filed off the edge.
Still love your content though. If/when YouTube implodes in a  dumpster fire, you're one of the creators I'll try to keep up with on other platforms.


Never cleared a sample in my life. Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Madonna, Rolling Stones, The Verve, Oasis, Motorhead, Tina Turner, Duran Duran and Creedance Clearwater Revival among probably dozens of artists. Only time I've not gotten away with it? A 61 year old Louis Prima song that got took down from iTunes. Unbelievable.


emplemon, you truly are a genius.  I wish I could get paid for bitching about how much my boss sucks everyday.


You forgot to mention how easy it is for some small artist with copyright of their song can still get copyrighted by random strangers for their own songs


i'm glad this view point seems to gain a lot more popularity recently


I have a question: do songs from hip hop mixtapes count as copyrighted material?

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Well tbh you could also ask Monstercat for music, never seen anyone complain about them claiming someone


Addendum: the DMCA is a backup plan for media companies. If copyright law is ever fixed to a fair arrangement, DMCA protections on works protected by encryption never expires under any circumstances. Circumventing those protections is a criminal act, not a civil matter. This means that if all copies of a copyrighted work released to the public were released encrypted, then the copyright holder may withhold access to the work for a fee indefinitely with the federal government acting as violent enforcers of that fee.

For years I've said out of control patent laws, copyright laws, and the DMCA would absolutely obliterate our culture, locking it up permanently behind a paywall and defeating the entire original stated purpose of copyright law to begin with. Lo and behold that's exactly what's happening. Shocker.

Addendum: the DMCA is a backup plan for media companies. If copyright law is ever fixed to a fair arrangement, DMCA protections on works protected by encryption _never expires_ under any circumstances. Circumventing those protections is a _criminal_ act, not a civil matter. This means that if all copies of a copyrighted work released to the public were released encrypted, then the copyright holder may withhold access to the work for a fee indefinitely with the federal government acting as violent enforcers of that fee.

For years I've said out of control patent laws, copyright laws, and the DMCA would absolutely obliterate our culture, locking it up permanently behind a paywall and defeating the entire original stated purpose of copyright law to begin with. Lo and behold that's exactly what's happening. Shocker.


I want to see someone get claimed for <i>Fight the Power</i>

I want to see someone get claimed for _Fight the Power_


17:57 this would be absolutely amazing for youtubers everywhere!

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This video has been blocked on copyright grounds in 248 countries.


copyright, if used rigorously enough, could keep the public from sticking to trends. If somebody copyrights stale traditions such as "happy birthday", the public could potentially leave it to support other things in it's place. It pisses me right off when somebody just takes a sample out of another song, it's cheap and exploitative of fundamental psychological attraction towards previous experience. Using media for memes is pretty integral to understanding them though


He's finally gone over the edge. welp we're in the endgame now.


Next time Emp check out Wikipedia when looking for old songs like Entry of the Gladiators, they often have public domain versions of songs performed by US Military Bands.

As for why its copyrighted on youtube, recordings of public domain songs don't become public domain. So while anyone is free to make their own version of Entry of the Gladiators, you can't just use a version made by someone else.


The real ball-busting part of the public domain freeze is that even if a work is public domain, the <i>recording</i> of that work probably isn't as a 78 record copy isn't going to be suitable for a video. And even if you do find a good copy or make your own recording, who knows if a modern copyrighted recording will flag content ID for your public domain recording!

The real ball-busting part of the public domain freeze is that even if a work is public domain, the _recording_ of that work probably isn't as a 78 record copy isn't going to be suitable for a video. And even if you do find a good copy or make your own recording, who knows if a modern copyrighted recording will flag content ID for your public domain recording!


Copyright law, content ID, and corporate greed are the reason why you should not be ashamed to pirate anything from any big corporation.
Screw those guys, they treat you like a criminal no matter what you do, so why play by the rules at all?
Shared the movie you bought with a friend? Piracy.
Shared account passwords with friends? Piracy.
Well I guess I can skip the whole buying the product thing in the first place then, how's that sound huh?


I wonder if YouTube watched this series.


lbry is the answer we need but we will see in next 2 years how downhill yt goes for people to switch


2:09 Fark!  I am going to have to do my own sponsored video just to afford one of those wallets.


You know, the Happy Birthday song was never a valid copyright?


Free us from the tyranny of Disney, please.


Me eating breakfast while watching Emplemon: yum

Rhino shitting: no


Emp needs to cool it with the antisemitic remarks


Hey, I hate to inform you that I am the copyright holder of the year 1893. I filed DMCA takedown notice unless you give me like 87% of you profits.


Pretty good video and arguments. Too bad they'll say fuck all :(


An unjust law is no law at all.
Restore justice.
Play the gladiator clown song.


worked that ridge ad in like a pro i couldn't be mad if i wanted to be


Paul McCartney enjoyed A Whole Career sampling other people’s work.<br>It’s only natural for him to close that door behind him Before Anyone DARES try and sample His work....... 🙄

Paul McCartney enjoyed A Whole Career sampling other people’s work.
It’s only natural for him to close that door behind him Before Anyone DARES try and sample His work....... 🙄


That Rusty Cage BG music sound a little too much like the violins from Herbie Hancock's Suite Revenge. Look out!


oh but, mr.Spiral you're wrong, I do hate media companies and want them to lose money


7:47 same question ive been asking about the education system too


Be careful emp youtube think this is harassment.


Perfect thank you, can we get rid of capitalism now

@Thor mate, this is the fucking law.
This goes deeper than "crony capitalism"
Also me saying capitalism is terrible does not equate to me being a communist.
I don't believe in communism either.
Not in our society.

what would we replace it with? Communism?


I looked and I didn't get a notification for emperor lemons new upload and I looked in my subscription box and no video either. But the way I found this video was my youtube homepage. CENSORSHIP MUCH?!


Whaddup council. Were here to lobby about copryright laws. (We all go the power guys)


A piece of copyrighted media enters the public domain 70 years after being published.  That means that after 70 years the copyright no longer exists.  So how is it that songs written 120+ years ago will get people sued?  This just ain't adding up.


i agree with everything you said in this video but at the same time its all stemming from your greed. get a real job instead of expecting livelihood from memes


Here before this video gets claimed for 0.2% of material with 100% of the revenue being taken.


Emp, it feels like you are going on a downward spiral yourself, the fact that you completely misunderstand why copyright exists, and why people treat IP the same as physical property. I'll admit I dislike how the 'new media' sort of has grown up treating works as disposable pieces of content but claiming copyright is made redundant by copyright violations is a shitty hill to die on. Blaming 'big' companies is a shitty argument too, the creator of any work and representatives of the creator have absolute right to seek payments when the work is used for any commercial purposes, you can't simply use someone's content to make your own content. I can't understand why anyone would justify rappers making money off other artists' work (sampling).

Perhaps the fairest thing to do for YouTube would be to transfer proportional revenue of the content from third parties, say you have a 100min long video of which 5mins is of third party content you have not licensed, YT could simply give 5% of your revenue to the third party.

I agree. This video really comes off as the ramblings of someone who has a very strong opinion on things that he really doesn't understand at all. Just because a lot of YouTubers (myself included) use copyrighted material indiscrinately doesn't mean that the law needs to change to benefit their needs.

And copyright laws, as well as patent laws, don't exist purely to "benefit smaller creators", but he keeps emphasizing that for some reason.


Will that horrible version of the first Resident Evil's basement theme get you a strike? I doubt Capcom wants to remember that one.

For those unaware, the song shows up as a result if you look up clowns farting in a basement on Youtube. I'm not joking. Try it.


save it download it before youtube takes it down we need this people


Inb4 you get copyclaimed by Trent Reznor for sampling his album name.


* Notice illegal use of song *

Yar - Har - fiddle - dee-dee
being a pirate is all right with me!
do what you want'cause a pirate is free
you are a pirate!
:  ) thanks Viacom, Disney, Warner media I'm bad wih buying my songs anyway lick my boots

* *Notice illegal use of song* *

Yar - Har - fiddle - dee-dee
being a pirate is all right with me!
do what you want'cause a pirate is free
you are a pirate!
:  ) thanks Viacom, Disney, Warner media I'm bad wih buying my songs anyway lick my boots


See, this is why the internet needs to band together to buy an island and create internet-land where laws make sense.


10:35 really bad idea to have been eating a cheeseburger when watching this


The downward spiral is<br>A C C E L E R A T I N G

The downward spiral is
A C C E L E R A T I N G


Honestly, Susan, just have emp run YouTube.

this isn't even a problem just with youtube.

Even if everyone moved to different site, it would only delay the law, not fix it.


Emp, my father is a scientific illustrator, who has had his work stolen literally thousands of times to be sold on goods.  Also, he will license his artwork for basically anyone for a pretty small cost.

 In my opinion, that is where copyright law works.  Independent artists that have their work stolen.  Like, someone on RedBubble just taking his art, putting it on a T-Shirt, and selling it.  These sites just let you download an image from a University and upload it to any of these merch sites and acting as if they own it.  Some of them sell straight up prints which he sells directly, shipping everything himself. He singlehandedly took on some of these MAJOR shit sites, if you like I could give you some great secondhand experience.

Now, music and video is a different experience 8n my opinion, basically share your opinions on it.  I think copyright should be life of the artist, or life of the artist +15 years.  What Disney pushed it to is insanity.


can't a eastern country create their own youtube with their own copyright laws,i'm assuming no company in the east is capable of this without blasting their bollywood crap every where.


These companies don't understand that using a 5 second clip of a Shrek movie actually PROMOTES the show by showing a large audience, but then again boomers don't understand the internet.


NO COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE UNIVERSE IS GONNA STOP ME-sonic the hedgehog


Can't wait for this video to get claimed


4 Actually punish companies and individuals with a fine to pay if they manually claim content wrongfully in a maliciously way but one can only dream


at least you can use charlie chaplin's the pilgrim. So thats good, I guess...


Somebody quick write the entire clown song in Morse code


Im glad Virginia is about to start the boogaloo


Upcoming soon: Coppa and Harassment Strike Guidelines

<b>That's the real problem as well...</b>


download this video before it is taken down for bullying


Disney: Our Animation will fall under the Public Domain in Forever + 1 year.


I respect the Thick as a Brick in the background.


I'm sorry but that Star_ whatamigonnaget thumbnail at around 9:40 made me a little emotional. I miss those days of YouTube.


What about Weird Al song Parodies? Oh wait, Copyright, asking for permission from the music companies and the Artist who made the song and paying license fees


You might not break copyright law becuase you hate media and want them to lose money- but I do. Eat my shorts Disney. I'm not going to pay you to watch Recess when I can watch all the 480p content I want.


Me: Happpy Birth-

Corporate Corperations: YOU JUST GOT FINED 43897539543782574 DOLLARS FOR USING A 126 YEAR OLD SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


Hey, things aren't all bad. We may not be able to use or even say St*r W*rs, but at least we have  <b>W I N T E R S T O R M Q I N U O A</b>

Hey, things aren't all bad. We may not be able to use or even say St*r W*rs, but at least we have  *W I N T E R S T O R M Q I N U O A*


Don't think I don't hear that Jethro Tull, you handsome son of a bitch <3


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Hm it's almost as if capitalism tends to breed monopoly

Lmao corporations literally lobbied to PREVENT capitalism and somehow it's capitalism's fault.


Remember vid.me? I think it's the best time for their comeback.


I hate that YT's garbage system has made me a little afraid to give this a like, because even with the huge amount of work EmpLemon put into making all of this great video safe from copyright claims there's still a good chance some dickwad copyright holder will claim it if it gets too much attention and they can find a sliver of a sliver of their prized material in it. When I feel like giving a video a like is helping push the creator's head above the trench and put them in the line of fire, you know things are completely broken and ass-backwards.


Why is “let’s go band” playing in the background?

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why do you feel entitled to profit off of someone else's work?

@Ellis Watanabe Then you saw the part where he said he wasn't opposed to people protecting their content.
You saw the part where he said he was willing to share the profits of his work in proportion to the works he used, rather than lose 100% of his revenue.
Then you heard where the system was only supposed to protect content for 14 years plus 14 years extension but the law was changed by Disney lobbyists.
You also heard the part where the current enforcers of the copyright system MADE BILLIONS by profiting off someone else's work.
And you also heard the part where the draws a clear distinction between using someone else's work for profit and actually creating new and original content.


[This video has been removed for harrassment]


EMPLemon: Hey U.S gov, how broken it your copyright system?

U.S gov: Yes.

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Remember when there was like just a video of a zoo on this site lol

@Hatster just making sure you don't forget

@Hatster it was actually the first video on YouTube


Just upload on a porn site. You can get monetized there, no?


I’m sorry but the ridge wallet is a scam, there were alibaba products exactly the same, even before the ridge wallet


What's the solution then? Should artists keep what they make un-copywritten so that there's no legal issues, or should they copywrite their material so that no one else can and then not enforce it?

@Jabroni Toni Well, all mainstream labels screw artists over. I think a good talk on this topic is Billy Cougan of Smashing Pumpkins on the Joe Rogan podcast, but a lot of other artists have exposed the reality of business on other shows. Essentially you make a deal with the labels for exposure and better sales. But the deal forces you to make your recordings at a label-owned studio and they'll charge you absurd amounts of money for studio time. We might be talking about values that can go up to 200k dollars to get an album done. And they end up taking a lot of the record sales so you barely see any money.

@Titanium Rain So independent artists need to make their own companies and labels to avoid getting screwed over?

@Jabroni Toni well, the second alternative then. Because we no longer depend on record labels for distribution then unsigned artists should group and create a label for the single purpose of copyrighting content and now allowing the big companies to take it for themselves.<br>I remember Trent Reznor created his own record label because of his disputes with conventional labels and he's the one who signed Lil Nas X.

@Jabroni Toni well, the second alternative then. Because we no longer depend on record labels for distribution then unsigned artists should group and create a label for the single purpose of copyrighting content and now allowing the big companies to take it for themselves.
I remember Trent Reznor created his own record label because of his disputes with conventional labels and he's the one who signed Lil Nas X.

@Titanium Rain I mean, yes, but until then what do we do?


Zero Black Just because it didnt last long doesnt mean it wasnt effective lol. It was gotten rid of as an extreme reaction to the situation at the time. Policy can be good and be revoked in a short period of time. Rail infrastructure is a great example of this.

@Pranav Rao Ok, first of all. I am not denying historical evidence. I just asked because the prohibition lasted as long as a fart. And if i am an slave to liberalism, i have news for you. We are in the same boat.

@Zero Black
"First, the regime created in 1919 by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, which charged the Treasury Department with enforcement of the new restrictions, was far from all-embracing. The amendment prohibited the commercial manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages; it did not prohibit use, nor production for one’s own consumption. Moreover, the provisions did not take effect until a year after passage -plenty of time for people to stockpile supplies.

Second, alcohol consumption declined dramatically during Prohibition. Cirrhosis death rates for men were 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 and 10.7 in 1929. Admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to 4.7 in 1928.

Arrests for public drunkennness and disorderly conduct declined 50 percent between 1916 and 1922. For the population as a whole, the best estimates are that consumption of alcohol declined by 30 percent to 50 percent.

Third, violent crime did not increase dramatically during Prohibition. Homicide rates rose dramatically from 1900 to 1910 but remained roughly constant during Prohibition’s 14 year rule. Organized crime may have become more visible and lurid during Prohibition, but it existed before and after.

Fourth, following the repeal of Prohibition, alcohol consumption increased. Today, alcohol is estimated to be the cause of more than 23,000 motor vehicle deaths and is implicated in more than half of the nation’s 20,000 homicides. In contrast, drugs have not yet been persuasively linked to highway fatalities and are believed to account for 10 percent to 20 percent of homicides.

Prohibition did not end alcohol use. What is remarkable, however, is that a relatively narrow political movement, relying on a relatively weak set of statutes, succeeded in reducing, by one-third, the consumption of a drug that had wide historical and popular sanction."

Harvard Proffesor Mark H. Moore

There is a lot of evidence showing it worked but you will continue to be a slave to liberalism


Dude you know Abelard? Hope that at least someone knows his music!

@i don't check my notifications you should check the lp 'Meta Valley' from hin. Pure gold i trink.

I like his aspartame remix

Edit: I was thinking of the wrong person so nvm but I do love Seinwave


Rusty cages background music, don't you mean mumkeys background music


DOWNWARD SPIRAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL


<b>Wanna know how I got these scars?</b>


Cut out what does not suit for children, and then cut out what suits children... What is left? Your mama.


Да  закони про атрсний права юутби устрили и не удбний ужсно


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Henry in de wall<br>How he gonna express himself

Henry in de wall
How he gonna express himself


at this point, what the fuck is the reason for Public Domain to exist.


If you ran for president or Congress I would vote for yoi


HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'm the JOKER BABy h89wrapt!! SanaiAOih Sanity 100


13:29 Any copyright legislation that gives protection a single second after the creator's death was bad regardless of era. The heirs of J. R. R. Tolkien and everyone else should take their hands out of our pockets and get jobs.


Hey man, the amount of work you put into these videos really shows. Keep up the good work.


Although I already immensely respect Emp. He has just somehow earned even more respect from me.

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Your analysis on Youtube keeps on getting better man. Tbh you probably make the best content I watch, so cheers!


A good video as always. Keep up the good work Emp.


This is one of the most important videos I've ever watched, it needs to blow up.


Whenever i would see stuff ive made reposted i have never gotten pissed of because of copy right bullshit, ive always been so excited by it cause its really cool that epoople would like my stuff like that!


18:01
this idea sounds good in theory but then I think the videos of straight up ripped footage would just be hours long, contain like 10 or 20 minutes of copyrighted footage and so the uploader would still get a large portion of the revenue

I hadn't even thought about that. I suppose the only way to truly circumvent that would be to have a system of manual review so that people could watch the videos and determine whether or not it's fair use and then... we'd be right back at square one because every video would just get fully claimed anyways like it is now... yeah I don't know how one would get around that honestly. You bring up a really good point. Even if they were to institute a system to judge whether or not the non-copyrighted portions of the video are actually "content", it would just bring upon a new gray area of what is really considered "content" and what's not. Solid counterargument.


Really Good Editing and Sound Design Emp.<br>Keep it up.

Really Good Editing and Sound Design Emp.
Keep it up.


Awwwwwwwwww yeah, more EmpLemon time and his downward spiral. If the world and the platform are about to end, I'd have no one else I'd rather watch


Youtube: That's how the law works<br>Emplemon: Am I a joke to you!?

Youtube: That's how the law works
Emplemon: Am I a joke to you!?

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Article 13 makes no sense !

In the recent past months a proposal was made to the EU called article 13 in order to solve issues connected with copyright on the internet.This bill recently passed and has made many on the internet speak out about why the bill won’t work as they intended it to.

Firstly, the intent of article 13 is clear however it will not work for many reasons. Article 13 is newly passed law that will take effect around 2021 and what it essentially says is that responsibility of copyright does not fall on the user rather the company the user uploads content on the site to deal with it. Which is meant to solve the issue of copyright not always being dealt with and that stricter rules is needed as companies have been “slouching” around not dealing with the issue.

To put this into perspektiv if you uploaded something that is copyrighted often it would fall on you the user that uploaded that copyrighted content on the site therefore, you get the consequences small or big (for ex. banning an account or being sued). However, when the law goes into effect, it will be the company's responsibility to respond to this and solve it or get the consequences. Due to how complicated the issue is though a simple bill will not really solve the “slouching” of companies working on copyright.

This is extremely harsh and makes little to no sense when you look at the pros and cons. What the EU is asking for is an impossible task in which problems do not get solved by individuals rather a group of finite workers to solve every individual’s copyright problem on their site. A site which will contain millions of users daily and can upload as much as they want any day to be solved by a big company is even a stretch by far.

What these companies will essentially have to rely on is bots that can detect whether the material is copyright infringed or not. Which sounds ok at first but because bots infamous history with taking care of copyrighted material not many consider them even to be a viable option. Not to mention that the best bots against copyright at the moment are mostly from Google and that would essentially force other companies to buy their bots or suddenly develop bots Google could not even perfect after many years. This is not even mentioning the smaller companies  which won't be able to afford any of these options. However in the end these bots will be used and do the standard check up on content which can’t discern many things.

In a blog post Ceo of Youtube Susan Wojcicki urges people to protest and writes that

“Article 13 as written threatens to shut down the ability of millions of people -- from creators like you to everyday users”

She later on, goes deeper into the conquenes and explanation as to why this will happen but the point is that even the largest tech companies have trouble with handling the situation. This could mean that it’s the tech companies fault for not handling the situation in which even one of the Proponents states

“the legislation is necessary to protect fair pay for creators, and that major tech platforms have been able to skirt responsibility for too long”.

Well if companies have been “skirting” the problem for too long, then this does make sense in a way. It is already a law in many countries not steal copyrighted content and, the artist and people mostly sign up on these sites expecting to be protected from people stealing their content in the agreements these sites have. Thus what article 13 wants is licenses to these people who upload the content, and if another person doesn't have the license to the content he should not be able to upload that content, to begin with. What article 13 is merely doing is shifting the responsibility to companies so that they can or get more productive in protecting the people’s content which they should have done, to begin with. Companies are being given time to accommodate for the sudden change as well from “skirting” around to much.

Article 13 will help not only small individual content but also protect giant companies making it safer to upload their content on to a site to get the revenue or adds etc. which they deserve. Also something that the law mentions is that modified content such as parodies, memes, reviews, educational purposes or some kind of remake of that content even though they might be similar is allowed. So essentially only the people who completely rip off that said content will be punished and those that change it up “enough” won't be. So the bill in the end won’t really punish anyone who follows the guidelines and will make it safer for does who do small creator or big.

The fact of the matter is that article 13 is trying to tackle a complex and hard question and then just leaving it at that almost as if the solution is really simple.

You might even say that the people behind the law have no idea or understanding of the effects and aren’t so much as worried about how the law will be followed rather that on paper it protects content and that they have made the exceptions in the law.

The Guardian (2019) states that

“Supporters argue that the laws even the playing field between large internet firms and traditional publishers, while opponents warn that the legislation risks creating an unfeasibly high barrier to publishing anything online, which will ultimately harm freedom of expression on the internet.”

It really does seem like the people voting for the law where really only looking at the small picture while others were looking at the big picture.

In a article by Communia (2019) they state

“On Tuesday this week a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it into the vibrant cultural space that it is today came out with an open letter addressed to the members of the European Parliament. Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Mitchell Baker, Jimmy Wales and 70 others write:”

The things that were previously stated are not only from people with basic understanding of the internet it’s also things being told by real professionals within this area.

However members of the EU are not professionals and don’t have as many connections to the internet as the average person in the tech industry.

In the EU parliament which is incredibly complex there are multiple jobs there but it is not perfect many would say.

 One thing some say the EU did bad in was not informing about the pros and cons of this law well. There are essentially four big groups in the EU but the focus will be on the EU commision.

From the EU official site Epso they state here how it works very shortly.

“The European Commission is the EU's executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.”

What is good to know is that the EU commission are not a direct representative of a country rather a group of people from european countries representing EU itself. So what they do is not on behalf of a country rather than themselves. We the people merely influence the EU parliament which are direct representatives of our country to vote on what is proposed. This process is incredibly indirect (because of this many argue that EU is not democratic enough) and creates the problem previously said which is people not getting the big picture, all the pros and cons etc. So due to indirekt process of voting and inferior knowledge on the bills consequences results in somewhat of a misinformation or little information being said.

However there has been opposition towards this law but only to fail for it to be debated any further with others in the Parliament. This can just be because they’ve already made up their minds and do not think there is much to add in the debate as also there is not much of a stake for these people etc. There are even more consequences to add to this bill passing such as that people will just start to use vpn and switch their location to view what they want to see (making tracing for ex. hackers harder), it will change the way other countries across the world will view content, it will make the internet in general less free and very restricting. This is a law that will help the minority such as music artists, big social media companies and hinder the majority who merely wants to enjoy the content or using the content for other “good” reasons. What is needed then would be petitions and votes to debate article 13 more and get a better understanding of the bill.

Thus we can conclude that this law need a change, at its core, is fundamentally broken and can not be implemented in this day and age with these astronomical cons at least compared to the pros. If someone can prove that the pros can overcome the cons and that the law can be implemented as of year 2021 many would very much like to hear it.


The first three minutes of this video has got to be some of the best content I have ever seen


Still only halfway through, but damn, this is really fascinating - The music industry really needs a taste of reality!


Every time I see emp I just think of the end of sextravaganza. He has changed so much since then. Not in a bad way, it’s just so surreal to see him now.


Emplemon my freind, you are man of speech and that is a wonderful thing.
But be careful with you power, you might just get what you wish for ;)

Really rooting for you!


Remixing has always been a massive part of our culture. For a relatable example, imagine if video game mechanics could be copyrighted.
Imagine if any 2D platformer was forced to pay royalties to Nintendo for "licencing mario-style mechanics"
(And yes I know that mario's physics were directly inspired by Miner 2049-er but like a lot of similar situations Nintendo (A big corporation who ripped their ideas from somewhere else) could probably either successfully defend themselves or buy the original source with all the money they made "infringing on it's mechanics")


Great video man keep up the great content


Youtube will never leave its never ending downward spiral


*_The downward spiral of YouTube has officially begun_*


If another website that runs the same as youtube ever takes off, you bet my ass im jumping off this ship


your series has a very good political analysis hidden under the deluge of memes.  enjoyed it a lot.  I honestly see no hope for this though.  there is too much moneyed interest for copyright to be changed and it will always be under assault to become stronger.


Damn, I didn't know we were already living in The Outer Worlds. It just came 300 years sooner and without any cool space exploration.


The question is can EMP and others explain to these people the problems. <br>Like become a MP to change the law. The whole internet would back you.

The question is can EMP and others explain to these people the problems.
Like become a MP to change the law. The whole internet would back you.


amazing work<br>this video is so spot on


I will go to the record store! That way, I'll MOCK modern pop music.

Not to mention, I'll bring a Jolly Rodger.

_I_ will go to the record store! That way, I'll MOCK modern pop music.

Not to mention, I'll bring a Jolly Rodger.


we're living in a new monopoly. A monopoly on entertainment.


Felix has certainly been on a
Downward
Spiral
Wouldn't you say


Love your content Emp<br>Lets get a beer lol😊👍

Love your content Emp
Lets get a beer lol😊👍


In conclusion, copyright laws are hypocritical


The joker theme of YouTube truely belongs the you. You've earned those scars