So many youtube reactors post only 10 minutes of movie footage as fair use and point to sites like Patreon to watch their full-length reactions, but how is that not a copyright infringement? Does paywalling copyrighted content let them get away with it?
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There are multiple things going on here:
1. “Fair use,” is kind of vague, and allows for “transformative content.” This allows for things like reviews and parodies i.e. you are taking the original material and adding your own value to it. Does a person adding themselves to the bottom corner of the screen and occasionally laughing/commenting count as transformative? Most would say no, but it’s still somewhat subjective meaning one site might count it as transformative and the other might not
2. In order to get something taken down, the content that infringes on copyright actually needs to be *detected* by either the original copyright holder, or some automated detection system. It’s likely the people referring their viewers to Patron to watch movies just found a loophole where Patreon doesn’t automatically scan for copyrighted content. It’s the same reason people upload video game leaks to PornHub, because PornHub doesn’t have a system to automatically scan for copyrighted content, so taking down copyright infringing videos might be harder on certain websites than others.
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