Grammy-Winning Artist Sues YouTube Over Content ID Discrimination

Grammy-winning jazz artist and composer Maria Schneider has filed a class-action lawsuit against YouTube over alleged Content ID discrimination. “If a rights holder does not have the economic clout to qualify for Content ID,” writes the plaintiffs’ legal team, “YouTube refuses to add their works to the Content ID catalog for prepublication protection even if those works have previously been infringed on YouTube hundreds or even thousands of times.”

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