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Last year I uploaded some old footage onto Youtube.. the footage was from WW2 that was filmed by US Gov. I saved it from a site that went down in 2000s and want
by Jerry2 11y ago
Last year I uploaded some old footage onto Youtube.. the footage was from WW2 that was filmed by US Gov. I saved it from a site that went down in 2000s and wanted to put it up for my cousin who was studying WW2 in HS.
In less than 24 hours, there were 4 different copyright claims by various companies. Over a 20 min clip. They obviously didn't own the copyright but they were claiming the clip as their own and wanted cuts of revenue.
About two years ago I uploaded an animation that I did in Apple Motion and it used stock sounds and music from Apple. Within a day of upload, I received a copyright claim by some company and they demanded I remove audio.
From my brief experience with Youtube/Google's Content ID system and the way they do business, I'm really glad I don't have to deal with this mafia on a daily basis.
- shiftpgdn 11y agoTry uploading classical music as played by yourself or a computer. It will be monetized by Sony/BMG nearly instantly.
- Retric 11y agoSeems obvious someone could sue and make money from this. Though perhaps not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud "But the U.S. Copyright Act does not expressly provide for any civil actions to remedy claims of copyright on public domain materials, nor does the Act prescribe relief for individuals who refrain from copying or pay for copying permission to an entity that engages in copyfraud."
- rspeer 11y agoOkay, how is that obvious? Why would you be likely to succeed?
- Retric 11y agoThere clearly committing fraud.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoBut they also have more money for lawyers than you, and in the US justice is determined by which side can pay more.
- notwhereyouare 11y agoyou have to prove they are committing fraud
- e40 11y agoYep. I uploaded a video of my son playing several hundred year old piano piece and it was within hours "claimed" by someone. It doesn't seem to hurt Google's business, but I won't upload stuff anymore.
- marcosscriven 11y agoI'm curious how that would be found so quickly - presumably it would have to be the title, because performances are individual. And why would Google even take such a claim seriously? If you're playing Bach clearly no one has a claim.
- such_a_casual 11y agoIt doesn't work like that. You can take down any video instantly just by filing a copyright against it.
- jacquesm 11y agoIt would appear to me that that is a knife that cuts both ways.
- newjersey 11y agoEven John McCain's people should know this is true. https://www.eff.org/files/mccain_youtube_copyright_letter_10.13.08.pdf https://www.eff.org/files/mccain_youtube_copyright_letter_10... Although their request for special treatment shows they just want YouTube to expedite cases that they care about. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/15/john-mccain-youtube http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/15/john-mccain-you... > "But we believe it would consume few resources - and provide enormous benefit - for YouTube to commit to a full legal review of all takedown notices on videos posted from accounts controlled by (at least) political candidates and campaigns."
- wlesieutre 11y agoNobody at Google looks at the claim, they've got an automatic process where somebody says "I own this." and Google says "OK!"
- toomuchtodo 11y agoUpload that content to archive.org instead of Youtube.
- e40 11y agoI didn't know (and I'm assuming many people don't) this was even possible! Thanks for the tip.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoYou're welcome! I'm uploading Bernie Sanders' speech today at Gerogetown University as we speak :D Archive All The History!
- MrRadar 11y agoIf you aren't there already you should come hang out with the Archive Team[0] in #archiveteam and #archiveteam-bs on EFNet. It seems like you'd fit right in. [0] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
- toomuchtodo 11y agoI'm bithippo when I drop into #archiveteam, and I live to save digital artifacts of humanity. Thank you for the invite :)
- walterbell 11y agoCan archive.org stream videos, or is file download required? Do they have an HTML5 player which can be embedded in other sites?
- pdkl95 11y ago> stream videos, or is file download required And what, exactly, is the difference for a server? The myth that there is something called "streaming" that is in any way different from a "download" needs to die.