So, someone has made a copyright claim over a royalty-free loop (probably) that I used in one of my remixes. A perfect example of how broken copyright enforcement is right now.
http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/e/2012/06/04-y ... system.php
I would be less annoyed if YouTube provided anything other than a black hole, a smattering of forum posts in which they clearly don't care while the supposed copyright holders take a holier-than-thou "it's our right" attitude, and the implication that this supposed copyright holder is going to make money off of my video.
6/5/2012 speaking of copyright crap
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Re: 6/5/2012 speaking of copyright crap
Content owners who provide content to YouTube have access to an easy tool to "claim" copyright against UGC. Their work has been ID'd by YouTube's systems at upload, and anything that contains a "match" is flagged in their inbox, at which time they choose how to proceed. All UGC is fingerprinted and can match against known content fingerprints, in whole or in part. AdRev is the revenue share option that copyright holders can apply and, as you said, receive $$ for every play which comes from the ads. It totally sux that some loops are simply too simple/common that they might trigger such a match, and I agree, the system (due to scale and ubiquitous-ness) defaults in the alleged copyright holder's favor.
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Re: 6/5/2012 speaking of copyright crap
It's broken. I can see a future business model in people making songs out of the stock loops in Logic and iMovie and submitting them as copyrighted works. Apparently there's already a lot of false matches because of people recording completely-original videos of birdsong that flag a match with a sampled bird in someone's song, or using a public-domain recording of a public-domain work of music and getting flagged against a non-PD recording, and since YouTube takes the stance that the alleged copyright holder is in the right, there is no chance for actual review.
I mean they do have a song and dance about denying the infringement, but it seems that no matter how the denial goes, the ACH can just say "nope, it's mine," and that's the end of it.
And of course they don't take the video down, no - they "graciously" let the "infringer" keep it up, and then put their own ads on it that make money for people who had noting to do with the creation of the video.
Shit like this makes me so sick.
I mean they do have a song and dance about denying the infringement, but it seems that no matter how the denial goes, the ACH can just say "nope, it's mine," and that's the end of it.
And of course they don't take the video down, no - they "graciously" let the "infringer" keep it up, and then put their own ads on it that make money for people who had noting to do with the creation of the video.
Shit like this makes me so sick.