I know it's a real problem and does deserve attention. But it's one thing if some guy is trying to sell millions of digital copies of the latest Madonna video from some motel in Eastern Europe, but it's quite another if someone uses a few snips of songs in a video he's doing for YouTube!
I've experienced PERSONALLY what I would consider a smart approach and a dumb approach on this.
I did some 30 second little YouTube videos to promote a thing I'm doing... and in a couple of them I used snippets from a couple of popular songs... I'm fairly naive and didn't think much of it because I wasn't selling the videos, but I was promoting my thing (fortunately very benign so that wasn't an issue)! Though it could be a fair concern...
Anyway, to make a long story short...
Their YouTube algorithms or whatever found 'em and did their robot "thing"... but here's the interesting surprise!
On one (with a clip for a Barbara Streisand song) they just added a little button to the bottom of my video identifying the song with a link for purchase! I was fine with that and so were they!(it was Sony) A smart approach!
But for the other, with a great guitar clip from Jeff Beck, they just stripped the audio from my 30 second video... which I suppose was in a way fair... but all that ended up happening is I had a useless video... and they lost an opportunity for some sales... I forgot the publisher on that one... but it was a damn good video!
This obviously doesn't cover all issues but the point is that there are much wiser approaches that this abominable plan.
But politicians are like very stupid carpenters. They only understand hammers... so everything becomes a nail to be pounded into the ground.