Edit: I’m not going to bother replying to every ignorant person that wants to disagree. If you upload something to Google and they can remove it, censor it or blank out sections, or demonetize sections or the entire thing… than Google owns it. Google owns the platform you are uploading it to and it functionally becomes part of their property. It even says so in the terms and conditions.
You may still own the original recording, but you do not own the uploaded version once it is uploaded.
Google owns the platform, they can decide what to have in their platform, but under license. They could still license it to a lot of other platforms, because they would still own it.
If you upload something to Google and they can remove it, censor it or blank out sections, or demonetize sections or the entire thing… than Google owns it.
That’s…not even a little bit true. They can do whatever they want with it on their platform. If they owned it you wouldn’t be able to upload it to other platforms. CBS could basically erase the entirety of Colbert’s content from existence and he would have no recourse because he doesn’t own the content, CBS does. Similarly he could not take his content and publish it elsewhere. That’s the important bit here.
Google would own the content.
Edit: I’m not going to bother replying to every ignorant person that wants to disagree. If you upload something to Google and they can remove it, censor it or blank out sections, or demonetize sections or the entire thing… than Google owns it. Google owns the platform you are uploading it to and it functionally becomes part of their property. It even says so in the terms and conditions.
You may still own the original recording, but you do not own the uploaded version once it is uploaded.
google would have a license
Ownership is a complicated concept but no, not really.
Google owns the platform, they can decide what to have in their platform, but under license. They could still license it to a lot of other platforms, because they would still own it.
That’s…not even a little bit true. They can do whatever they want with it on their platform. If they owned it you wouldn’t be able to upload it to other platforms. CBS could basically erase the entirety of Colbert’s content from existence and he would have no recourse because he doesn’t own the content, CBS does. Similarly he could not take his content and publish it elsewhere. That’s the important bit here.