This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content analysis of 144 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright law, how they minimize risks posed by copyright infringement, and how they navigate a highly technical and dynamic copyright enforcement ecosystem. Our findings offer insights into how digitally situated cultural producers are impacted by and respond to automated content moderation. This is important because increasingly lawmakers around the world are asking digital platforms to implement efficient systems for content moderation, and yet there is a lack of good information about the stakeholders most directly impacted by these practices. In this study, we present a systematic analysis of copyright gossip, building on the concept of algorithmic gossip, which comprises the opinions, theories, and strategies of creators who are affected by YouTube’s copyright enforcement systems.

本研究调查了 YouTube 上的版权话语。通过对 144 个 YouTube 视频的定性内容分析，我们探索了 YouTube 创作者如何理解版权法、他们如何最大限度地减少版权侵权带来的风险，以及他们如何驾驭高度技术性和动态的版权执法生态系统。我们的研究结果提供了有关数字化文化生产者如何受到自动内容审核的影响和响应的见解。这很重要，因为世界各地越来越多的立法者要求数字平台实施有效的内容审核系统，但缺乏关于受这些做法影响最直接的利益相关者的良好信息。在这项研究中，我们基于算法八卦的概念，对版权八卦进行了系统分析，