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Why do copyright holders restrict access to their videos on youtube? (lemy.nl)

submitted 10 months ago by Sticker@lemy.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am faced with the fact that the music video of my favourite band is not available in my region.
I found out about this video by accident, thanks to an app for Invidious.

Perhaps the decision to restrict access belongs to the record label? But what's the point if the band's discs and vinyl records are sold in my country?

(Old music videos and a few new ones are available for viewing. Only one video is not available.)

Arte TV's YouTube channel also has some interesting phenomena going on.

They post recordings of concerts, and after a while they remove them from public access. This can happen a few days after the release or a few months later.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Usually country restrictions on media tend to have their origin in exclusive distribution agreements for certain countries or parts of the world. If you sold the exclusive right to distribute your video in say Europe to some third party back in the days before the internet you have no choice but to restrict access.

It is not done because it is the sane thing but because it is the legal thing based on contracts made in the times of outdated distribution methods.

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about SNL videos on YouTube in Canada? They are all region locked (like every single one) does that mean there's an exclusive distributor in Canada who isn't YouTube?

[–] kae@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Global owns the airing rights to SNL in Canada.

[–] Sticker@lemy.nl 1 points 10 months ago

I don't think this applies to the two named examples.

[–] peter 13 points 10 months ago

Copyright is more complicated than it might first appear. There is a copyright on the music, the performance, the lyrics, but also the music video itsself, or even individual things used within the music video and all of these may be owned by different people each with particular license terms.

[–] amio@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

The default for IP holders is to be a twat. If they focused on making their portfolio available to the most people, there might pass an un-pinched penny through their claws. As a result, any kind of IP license must, apparently, be the maximum amount of pain and circumscription and sheer, bloody-minded pettiness it could possibly be.