What exactly falls under copyright protection?
All creative works of the human mind. In principle, all unusual texts, visual and audio works that you can think of have legal protection in the form of copyright. You don’t have to agree with that, but it’s true.
If we start philosophizing for a moment: What is the difference between a student learning from a YouTube video and a computer learning from a YouTube video?
The difference lies in the false premise: the computer does not learn in this case. Machine learning is a statistical algorithm that extracts a lot of data and processes it into a very highly compressed matrix with data loss. It is of course a bit more complicated, but clearly there is no learning involved. There is reproduction and redistribution, which are protected by copyright.
If you want a fair comparison, you’d be talking about true (general) AI, which can actually learn and understand, and doesn’t need datasets to train on. Like a human, after seeing a picture of a banana in a bowl, they might be inspired to come up with a similar, but slightly different, concept, like a mango in a bowl. Current “AI” can’t do that.
Considering that videos on YouTube are certainly accessible without restrictions.
Serious error. Copyright is and still is. YouTube’s terms and conditions make that clear too. You’re not allowed to use YouTube videos in any way you want. There are legal restrictions, most of which are copyright.
If I am walking down the street in public life, shouldn’t I be able to walk around freely and look around?
Sure. You can watch. Simply copying is not allowed. Try it, start copying and selling branded clothing and see how long it takes before you get sued. Again, we’re not talking about looking, we’re talking about using. These are completely different things.
Just think of Google Streetview, which has photographed everything and everyone on public roads.
Google also has to comply with the legislation in this regard, and therefore has to remove or blur some things. However, we digress. Back to copyright.
If YouTube is so keen that everyone and everything can’t watch videos on their website, they could choose to first sign in with an account for everyone.
It’s irrelevant in two ways. First, YouTube is not responsible. Second, it doesn’t solve the problem in any way and just adds an additional obstacle for legitimate users.
By definition, there is no longer any information that is freely accessible.
It certainly wasn’t. Moreover, the same information is still available, you just have to take an extra step. We then get to the discussion of what “open access” means, but that’s completely irrelevant since this discussion is specifically about what you can and can’t do with information available on the Internet (in whatever form).
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