Shashir Mehrotra

To do that well, you have to do it.

You have to sit down and say, here's how I would edit these things.

And I think you can provide that service and you can get paid for it.

And hopefully we're one of the platforms where you choose to do that.

I'm sure we'll be asked.

Yeah.

I'm sure we'll be asked.

We'll see.

There's a lot of things in our defense that I won't cover.

But I think the core of this argument isn't going to be that.

The core of the argument is that what we did is normal attribution of content on the internet.

You know, it's interesting the way you just described it.

First off, some of the ones you described, describing React videos as scandals is a very interesting way to describe it.

I understood your definition.

They're also incredibly popular and have led to a whole genre of content being created.

Likeness detection, Content ID, they were all fantastic tools for creators and they're great tools for creators.

My team built the Content ID tool with the same idea.

If Marques Brownlee, if somebody does that to him and they copy his videos and put them up, then you can use that tool and he can not only go claim them, he can go make money on them.

And that is a tool we built for YouTube, and I think it's been incredibly popular.

And we took what looked like a scandal and went well beyond it.