Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, December 27th, 2019.

I'm Brian McCullough today. A late holiday gift for YouTube creators, an important new rule for drone operators, to what

degree has the Chinese government actually enabled Huawei's success, and of course the weekend

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Creators have been asking for something like this for a long time now, so in something of a

Festivist Miracle, there must be some rejoicing across the land as YouTube has updated YouTube studio with new tools to give creators more ways to handle copyright disputes, including an assisted trim tool to edit out claimed copyrighted content.

Quoting the verge.

The new update now lets creators address copyright disputes directly from their digital back-end workspace and gives them the option to trim out the claimed content in question.

The assisted trim option is the biggest feature rolling out with the new studio update,

with the quote endpoints of the

edit preset to where the claimed content appears in the video according to a

Google product blog the team is working to allow adjustable endpoints so creators can cut out the specific portion of their video that makes the most sense, but that isn't available just yet.

Creators can also filter through their video feeds in studio to specifically see which videos were hit with copyright claims,

leading to demonetize statuses or blocked videos entirely, much more easily.

In an effort to be more transparent, the YouTube team

is also showing copyright strikes which are different and far more severe than

copyright claims directly on their studio dashboard.

We're also providing more transparency about the content of the copyright takedown than ever before.

Now surfacing the specific description of the copyrighted work provided by the claimant in the takedown notice, a YouTube blog post reads, end quote.

The FAA has issued a new rule requiring most drones to implement remote ID systems that will allow for tracking by law enforcement, saying that it expects compliance by all drone owners within three years.

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