NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 video has recently been made unavailable on YouTube by “some countries/regions”. The reason is not that the content is too hot, but the familiar reminder: “It has been blocked in your country/region due to copyright reasons.” The problem is that this is an official promotional/publishing video uploaded by NVIDIA. The copyright should be the cleanest, but it was claimed first by the copyright identification of the Italian TV station La7, which made the official video unavailable in some places!
It is obviously an official video, but a “third-party TV station” claims the content in turn.
This DLSS 5 post had amassed over 2.3 million views before being blocked. The most reliable theory at present is that the Italian TV station may have broadcast a clip of the NVIDIA DLSS 5 launch conference in the program, and then YouTube’s system tied the “same footage” to the TV station La7’s material, and in turn determined that NVIDIA’s original upload also violated La7’s copyright.
It sounds ridiculous, but this is the most common complaint about YouTube’s automated copyright system: you are obviously the original author, but because someone else put your picture on TV/online first, the algorithm will treat it as “you copied him”.
YouTube human review does not seem to exist. In the end, it depends on whose appeal process is faster.
The really embarrassing thing about this situation is that “no one” will do justice for you in the first place. The system judgment is highly automated and manual intervention is minimal, so even large companies have to go through the process: appeal, wait for review, and wait for release, during which the video will still be blocked.
This time the copyright issue has been removed and the video has a chance to resume normal playback in the affected areas. However, this incident leaves a reminder: as long as the judgment of YouTube’s copyright system is still biased towards automation, even if you are a big boss like NVIDIA, the official video may be suppressed by “other people’s broadcast version”. Not to mention for ordinary creators, if you wake up today, your video will disappear first, and the reason may not be clear!