YouTube reveals millions of videos get hit with incorrect copyright claims

Is this surprising to absolutely anybody? I'm curious. I follow a lot of content creators on YouTube - I watch way too much YouTube in a single day, and I thought this was just common knowledge.

The YouTube copyright system is broken. Completely. Content creators have been battling this for a while. A loosing battle - because YouTube has been doing nothing to fix it.

The youtube terms of service say that filing a false claim isn't protected and you can be sued by the creator. Being demonitized means ads are still shown over your content, but the revenue goes to the party making the fraudulent claim, so probably billions of dollars have been stolen cumulatively. Yet somehow we never hear of people actually suing to recover damages, presumable because of significant expense and legal risk.

This is an opportunity for a law firm of the future to automate away as much of the boilerplate as possible, amortize costs, and make it feasible for people to recover their money from these criminals. It might also fix the rampant abuse of contentid systems by big media companies if they are constantly on the hook for expensive legal fees.

So, on 40% of appeals, reviews confirm the bogus claims, and it sounds like Youtube is proud of this. Here we pretty much have the figure at which Youtube says “good enough”.

One of the options that YouTube should have provided creators is that by default any copyrighted or content should be muted or that relevant portion/area of the clip masked if their DL models are good enough for video analysis. Instead of the whole strike based system, if their goal is to not allow copyrighted content then it should be prevented during upload instead of giving right-holders revenue from rest of the video's content.