5 second Content ID

markkaz

markkaz

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I remember people saying that you can use ten seconds or so of music and it not getting caught by YouTube's Content ID. I was just reading an article that mentioned a tweet from Josh Thomas (TheBitBlock on Twitter).

Notice how it was able to identify a 5 second clip! I wonder what is the fewest number of seconds that it really needs to identify copyrighted content?

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Of course it's able to ID a 5 second clip. Why wouldn't it? We live in 2013, not 1988. In theory it could ID a song in 0,2 seconds.
 
My outro is from a Kraftwerk song and they haven't noticed it yet. The audio clip is under 30 seconds, IDK if that somehow doesn't trigger the copyright.
 
There will be a threshold of accuracy below which the liklihood of false claims is very high.At a certain point, one tone or sound will be indistinguishable from another but it will be a very short piece of audio at that point. I would suspect that it is in the 0-1 second range of data that would be required to accurately determine if the deritative is a piece of other source material.

It's worth remembering that often the human ear can identify a song base on a single second or two of audio. A computer is going to do that much more efficiently.
 
Katherinejane001 said:
Still. That's a little ridiculous. Getting in trouble for FIVE seconds of a song :/
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Oh absolutely. Though most often it's not getting in trouble. It's assigning ownership of your content to the group who owns that 5 seconds, which is even more ridiculous. As though that 5 seconds of audio is the single solitary piece of value in the video. This is why we desparately need partial ownership rules, not this all or nothing trash.
 
Tarmack said:
Oh absolutely. Though most often it's not getting in trouble. It's assigning ownership of your content to the group who owns that 5 seconds, which is even more ridiculous. As though that 5 seconds of audio is the single solitary piece of value in the video. This is why we desparately need partial ownership rules, not this all or nothing trash.
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Yeah seriously...it's a little crazy. I can't see myself getting upset with someone using 5 seconds of one of my songs O_O yikes.
 
Katherinejane001 said:
Yeah seriously...it's a little crazy. I can't see myself getting upset with someone using 5 seconds of one of my songs O_O yikes.
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It's not necessarily being upset for usage of 5 seconds, they do however want dibs on the revenue. I think many of us would want to monetize our content if it was copied on a wide scale basis.
 
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