YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio

I guess it's good that there's a new solution to this problem, but I wish it just wasn't a problem in the first place. It's ridiculous that someone can't just walk around outside, making a video of what they're doing, and post it, without having to worry that some copyrighted music is playing in the background for some portion of it.

That sort of situation should be considered fair use, and copyright owners who attempt to make trouble for people caught up in this situation should be slapped down, hard, and fined.

I think they had a similar system before to replace all the audio in your video with something from the youtube audio library. The first thing in the list was a song called "009 Sound System Dreamscape" which became notorious as the background audio for tutorials where someone types into notepad due to this system.

I wonder what the pre-eminent audio library song is going to be this time.

This is actually a better solution. If someone complains you can scrub it and still maintain your full ownership of the video, while still keeping your video watchable.

Replace is nice if it's only the song, but you lose any voice-over.

Mute also loses your voice-over.

They will have to do this in real time for twitch streamers.

There have been some pretty funny instances of people on among us competing against streamers, so they play copyrighted music to keep the streamers away.

It was the first time that DMCA acted as a paladin-like aura in a video game.

It’d be nice to have a fair use tool, identifying when copyrighted music is a fair use.

They should add AI that improves audio as well. Some older MIT and Stanford course playlists have pretty bad audio. It would be nice if they could just enhance the audio in place.

i wonder if you can use this to make a viral video of someone screaming like a lunatic by erasing the loud music they were trying to be heard over. like the dean scream video that sunk the howard dean presidential campaign

it's disturbing to me when youtube permits post-publication editing of videos like this

I'm still waiting for Canon to release a tool to scrub pictures of the buildings I own. What makes people believe they can just post photos of my buildings? I purchased the rights to that architecture.

This made me think of all the copyright claiming against classical musicians performing pieces for the sound recording copyright (rather than the piece itself being copyrighted; so many pieces are out of copyright in a significant number of places[0]). I don't use youtube so I'm not sure if it's still a thing that happens? If it is, I wonder how this eraser tool will behave. Would a few bars of someone's performance of a piece be removed because there's inevitably going to be similarities when performing a piece?

[0] imslp.org is a great source for pieces no longer under copyright. Not all the sheet music itself on imslp is out of copyright in all jurisdictions, of course.

Incorrect title.

>> remove copyright-claimed music from your video

This tool will only remove music that has been reported/claimed by someone and reported to youtube. It certainly cannot remove all copyrighted music given that most all recorded music is copyrighted already irrespective of youtube. This tool can remove stuff that has been reported and shared with youtube's copyright systems. That is a different thing than the title.

If they made this available to viewers too it would be a valuable way of removing overbearing background music from otherwise interesting videos.

The music industry will never let this fly. They would lose their ability to control our home movies that have an undetectable slight note or two that might have come from a neighbor's stereo system. Mark my words, YouTube will drop this to give the music mafia their control back.

This is a much better approach, I like it. Does anyone have a demo videos of this actually being used from when it was in beta? The demo in the video about the feature doesn't demo the results, just the UI.

This is essentially how Earworm[1] started

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ

Not only Remove, but also Trum and even Replace the song.

This feature has existed since at least 2014.[1] I guess they're just advertising it now because AI is the new hotness? It's generally worked for me pretty well, although sometimes the sound gets a bit strange.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140427195913/https://support.g...

It feels quite plausible that soon enough we’ll be able to ask it to replace copyright music with generated “soundalike” music.

Great now i can easily remove the content i paid for fair and square from videos of the software i work on, cause i do not have the bureaucracy Time for all those maniacs who strike there custonners.

And its all to protect a ecosystem that their own geberative ai research has doomed to die anyway . Makes perfect sense, in a asylum hallway kind of way. The public will have to bail out YouTube .

https://github.com/PicassoCT/MOSAIC/raw/master/sounds/advert...

Now we need a client side algorithm to add that back, perhaps provided by a music platform where the user is a subscriber. I’m sure streaming services would enjoy this kind of windfall.

Youtube's eraser tool removes any music that any moron or bullshit artist has chosen to claim...

"AI powered algorithm" or just plain old Fourier Transforms?

I really wish the content id system was open to all.

Simply default to the first person to upload a piece of video to the site 'owns' it. If you're a film studio or something you can upload a video and set it to private to 'own' content before you release it.

I get that technically scaling content id is hard, but it seems like a solvable technical challenge considering the market position it would give YouTube as the de facto copyright reference index. Everyone has to upload there first unless they want to risk getting their content 'owned' by someone else and a battle to get it reassigned.