He used nothing of the original (aside from lyrics), therefore it is fair use. For something to be fair use it has to be transformative from the original work. In the end, Roomie is in the right, and Billie's publisher is actually doing something illegal.
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It isn't YouTube doing this
, it's the big music companies abusing the broken copyright system. If YouTube were to make a proper, working system, the companies would lose out on huge profits and would either sue them into the ground or pull out of advertising. -
Ohhhhh well if that’s the case then, by all means they should continue
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I hope so too. But I think we’ve even bypassed the days where even h3h3 could do it alone again. Sadly. It would take a lot of youtubers with substantial clout to come forward together to put enough heat on them for yt to consider changing their standards.
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