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Brock Baker’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ YouTube video has been demonetized again

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Disney has once again demonetized a third-party Steamboat Willie video, after previously remonetizing it and dropping its copyright claim against it. This time taking issue with the video’s audio. On Thursday, Mashable reported that Disney struck voice actor and YouTuber Brock Baker with a copyright claim quickly after he posted a Steamboat Willie video, despite … Read more

Disney pulls ‘Steamboat Willie’ YouTube copyright claim amid Mickey Mouse entry into public domain

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This feels significant: Disney has officially retracted a copyright claim on a third-party’s Steamboat Willie video on YouTube. On Thursday, Mashable reported that YouTuber and voice actor Brock Baker had uploaded a video to his channel with over 1 million subscribers which was almost immediately hit with a copyright claim from Disney. YouTube’s message to … Read more

Google broke the law when it refused to bargain with YouTube Music contract workers, says NLRB.

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The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Google’s refusal to bargain with a group of unionized YouTube Music contractors is illegal. The three-member panel decided that despite denials by Google, which owns YouTube Music, and its subcontractor Cognizant, the two are, in fact, joint employers of the Austin-based workers who perform data-related tasks, like finding … Read more

YouTube demonetizes public domain ‘Steamboat Willie’ video after copyright claim

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Planning to utilize new public domain works featuring Mickey Mouse this year? Well, here’s a case you should certainly pay attention to. On Thursday, voice actor and YouTuber Brock Baker uploaded a new video, titled “Steamboat Willie (Brock’s Dub),”  to his YouTube channel with more than 1 million subscribers. SEE ALSO: How people are using … Read more

The crypto scams are getting better — is YouTube prepared?

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The video is almost convincing: it features Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko announcing a “historic day” for Solana. He thanks the “S-O-L” community and offers a giveaway through a QR code and a website. Sure, he sounds a little robotic — his voice is a monotone, unusual for him — and he hardly makes eye contact with … Read more

Trisha Paytas Recalls Being Shot at By an ‘A-List Actor,’ Addresses Her Problematic Past | Trisha Paytas, youtube | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

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Trisha Paytas opened up about her past in a new interview. The 35-year-old YouTuber sat down for an interview with Paper Magazine. During it, she addressed her “problematic” past. She also recalled an encounter with an “A-list actor” who was shooting a gun in her direction. Amazingly, Trisha said it wasn’t the scariest moment of … Read more

Worried About Deepfakes? Don’t Forget “Cheapfakes”

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“Political ads are deliberately designed to shape your emotions and influence you. So, the culture of political ads is often to do things that stretch the dimensions of how someone said something, cut a quote that’s placed out of context,” says Gregory. “That is essentially, in some ways, like a cheap fake or shallow fake.” … Read more

YouTube Is Now Hiding Which Channels Get a Cut of Ad Revenue

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YouTube unleashed an influential generation of new internet celebrities in 2007 when it started to share ad revenue with select video creators. For the past couple of years, a snippet of code on YouTube’s website revealed which channels are part of the secretive and exclusive club. But users and activists who had come to rely … Read more

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot AI can’t really summarize every YouTube video

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One feature added to Microsoft’s AI Copilot in the Edge browser this week is the ability to generate text summaries of videos. But Edge Copilot’s time-saving feature is still fairly limited and only works on pre-processed videos or those with subtitles, as Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft’s CEO of advertising and web services, explained. As spotted by … Read more