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Originally Posted by Rain Man
It's an interesting problem, because most of the content on youtube is people who put stuff up just for the attention, and google makes ad money off of them. Some people on youtube get paid, though, if they get enough views. I don't know how much, but they get paid.
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Correct. From my understanding (and YouTube isn't an area of expertise but I do have some knowledge), once a video has reached 1 million views, money is paid to the person that uploaded the video. The last I heard (and this is an aggregate) is that 1 million views pays approximately $1,000 dollars before AdSense takes a 45% share.
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Originally Posted by Rain Man
So is the problem that people are putting up music that's not theirs? I presume that I wouldn't get paid if I put up a Springsteen video that got 20 million views, but I would if I put up a video of my kitten chasing its tail. How does Google sort that out? It seems like they could figure out pretty quickly that any video of Springsteen that generates revenue in their model should get paid out to Springsteen and not "SpringsteenCrazyFan2015".
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Yes, people are posting music in which they have no claims to ownership. Also, AdSense, YouTube's collection arm, keeps 45% of the revenue generated by the views. Payout per view can also vary from 50 cents to $5 dollars.
Google/YouTube can track which subscribers are using copyright protected music and videos and which aren't through watermarking technology. They also have a department that tracks that info so no revenues are shared in a scenario like you've described.
That's what makes them so disingenuous.