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Try uploading classical music as played by yourself or a computer. It will be monetized by Sony/BMG nearly instantly.
by shiftpgdn 11y ago
Try 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!"
- e40 11y agoMy understanding is they apply heuristics to the video and audio. They might be Google. Or others, I just don't know.