三大唱片公司與YouTube爭端升級
The music industry has opened a new front in its dispute with YouTube, as the three largest labels allege that the Google-owned video site’s filtering technology fails to identify enough unlicensed content.
音樂行業在與YouTube的爭端中開闢了新的戰線，三大唱片公司指控這家谷歌(Google)旗下的視頻網站的過濾技術未能識別足夠多的未授權內容。
YouTube’s free video site has grown into the world’s biggest streaming music platform, attracting more listeners than Spotify and Apple Music combined.
YouTube的免費視頻網站已成長爲全球最大的流媒體音樂平臺，吸引的聽衆人數超過了Spotify和Apple Music之和。
It is due to negotiate new licensing deals this year with Universal Music Group, Sony Musicand Warner Music Groupbut relations between the company and the labels and artists that provide much of its video content have soured.
該網站今年要與環球音樂集團(Universal Music Group)、索尼音樂(Sony Music)和華納音樂集團(Warner Music Group)談判新的許可協議。然而，它與提供許多視頻內容的唱片公司和藝人之間的關係已經惡化。
UMG, Sony Music and WMG have claimed in submissions filed to the US Copyright Office that Content ID, YouTube’s signature content recognition technology, was unable to identify all unlicensed tracks that had been uploaded.
在提交給美國版權局(US Copyright Office)的情況說明中，環球音樂、索尼音樂和華納音樂聲稱，YouTube標誌性的內容識別技術Content ID未能辨認出所有上傳的未授權音軌。
Content ID was created by YouTube as a mechanism to identify illegally uploaded music and then give rights holders the chance to either block it or make money from it. But the labels say too much music is slipping through the cracks.
Content ID技術是YouTube創建的一種機制，其目的是辨認非法上傳的音樂，然後讓版權所有者有機會封殺該音樂或從中賺錢。但這些唱片公司表示，該技術讓太多音樂鑽其漏洞的空子。
