YouTube Launches “Super Chat” To Help Musicians Make Money From Live Streams

January 13, 2017By rightstech

Google’s YouTube today launched SuperChat, a new tool that helps fans and creators to connect and for creators to earn money. Super Chat is rolling out in beta this week for some creators, and will be available for all creators in 20 countries and viewers in 40 starting January 31st.

Source: YouTube Launches “Super Chat” To Help Musicians (And Trolls) Make Money From Live Streams, But Discontinues “Fan Funding” – hypebot

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AI Companies Get the Picture

By Paul Sweeting

One of the biggest challenges facing copyright owners in grappling with the rapid development of generative AI technology, apart from a murky legal status, has been market failure, as discussed here in previous posts. The amount of existing material needed to train gen-AI models is so great, and so varied, that gauging the value of any one piece of it to establish a market price for it for licensing purposes is often effectively impossible. One group of rights owners is finding willing buyers among AI companies, however. An active, albeit for various reasons mostly sotto voce market has begun to emerge for the use of images held in large photo archives and by photo agencies and social media platforms, complete with per-unit industry and at least a nod toward creator attribution... Read More >>

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