Musicians should get what they deserve for their work.
Some new software from music licensing firm Audiosocket could help make it easier for them to get credit when their music gets streamed on places like YouTube
But it could also increase enforcement against users who upload unlicensed songs
YouTube’s current system for identifying tracks, called ContentID, only lets the rights-holder know their song has been played.
It does not tell them whether the user had legal authority to do so. It only matches sounds against a vast database of audio.
As a result, everyone from major companies to a guy who had birds singing in the background of his post have been receiving erroneous take down notices,
A bit more on how it works here
and here
Should all recorded music be permanently trackable?
Is this more erosion of our privacy under the guise of protection?
Does the software tracking company profit from our fears in the way insurance companies do, or does it really benefit content creators?