YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

Yep, 42 minutes of video. This was a big project. Plus: I've got an all-new five-part original series called Money over on Nebula, which you can watch as a bundle with CuriosityStream! curiositystream.com/tomscott

Actually, don't ask photographers how much their gear costs. Unless you want to see a crying photographer.

No red t-shirt. This looks serious.

Love how the entirety of this video is Tom making absolutely sure this video won't get copyright strike

a fun way to explore how messed up copyright is is to attempt to liscence a picture of a newspaper that doesn't exist anymore. The author sold it to an orginization that no longer exists, that was bought by a different company, whose image management system is different from their text copy management, and the only way you can find the image of the original newspaper is in an archive which has its own licensing agreements and the original author is dead but not for the required time for your country to move it under copyright. Courage to anyone whose job requires it!

"We need to dramatically shorten copyrights" Disney didn't like that

Love how Tom always looks simultaneously 24 and 42.

Seeing Jay Foreman casually appearing as a lawyer made my day

You forgot a very interesting fact about copyright expiry! The Peter Pan clause. All copyright in the UK lasts for the author's life + 70 years, apart from one specific work: Peter Pan. The author gave the rights to Great Ormond Street Hospital and the law was written to make sure this copyright lasts forever.

The Creators: It's Youtube's fault Youtube: It's the Creators fault Tom: It's the world's fault

Disney lobbied copyright law into absurdity. 70 years after the creator’s death is bloody absurd.

30:50 I love that he put the text above where the captions are so those that require/enjoy captions don't have to turn them off to read the text, turn them back on, and rewind. It is one of the most common things I see where people put text right under the captions, which are unmoveable on mobile devices. His videos are always so well thought out and lots of people appreciate your work.

The music industry is completely absurd with how much of a mess it is to keep track of what license is applicable when and where. It's kind of disgusting, in all honesty.

I was thinking that "death of the artist" would be a reasonable limit for copyright duration, but then I realized that it would create a new motive for murder.

“This is an actual lawyer and I have no idea how I convinced him to do this” Lmfao

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the incredible collab between legal eagle and tom scott?

The thing that infuriates me is that many copyright cases end with the confiscation of computers. That’s not an eye for an eye; that’s an eye for a dirty look.

"How old are you?" "Somewhere between 23 and 52."

I like how Tom's idea of annoying is just Tom but wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

There are companies out there that just seemingly try their luck with claiming copyright on entire or parts of music videos by independent creators. A friend of mine had a claim filed against one of her videos for some of the footage…yet every second of footage was filmed by her; and it was just POV footage at a beach. Took her ages to get the claim settled.