C’est via un twitt de Fred Cavazza que j’apprends l’existence de YouTomb. YouTomb est un projet ambitieux d’étudiants du MIT qui permet de suivre l’évolution des vidéos effacés sur YouTube pour une violation de droits d’auteurs. Cependant, le site web ne nous permet pas de consulter les vidéos à nouveau… Dommage! Vous vous demandrez à quoi sert cette nouvelle innovation dans ce cas? Je vous laisse les auteurs du site web vous répondre:

When a user-submitted video is suspected to infringe copyright, the rights holder is contacted and given the option to take down the video in question. In addition, rights holders can submit DMCA takedown notifications at any time that cause YouTube to immediately remove alleged infringing content.

MIT Free Culture became especially interested in the issue after YouTube announced that it would begin using filtering technology to scan users’ video and audio for near-matches with copyrighted material. While automating the takedown process may make enforcement easier, it also means that content falling under fair-use exceptions and even totally innocuous videos may receive some of the collateral damage.

As YouTube is not very transparent with the details surrounding this process and the software used, YouTomb was conceived to shed light on YouTube’s practices, to educate the general public on the relevant copyright issues, and to provide helpful resources to users who have had their videos wrongfully taken down.

Ce site web a donc son utilité et il demeure beaucoup moins lugubre que d’autres sites du genre…