For copyright violation, the only option I was presented with was to send an appeal to the copyright holder. Youtube just passes the buck to some copyright hol

For copyright violation, the only option I was presented with was to send an appeal to the copyright holder. Youtube just passes the buck to some copyright holder who in my case at least was completely unrelated to my recording, other than coincidental order of tunes. I don't know, maybe three traditional tunes played in that particular order can be copyrighted, though that's a bit ridiculous. Thousands of performances of traditional music would suddenly be infringing. I was happy to give Vimeo my money to get around this, and I doubt I'll be giving Youtube money for any of their commercial offerings, until they can straighten this mess out. I do understand they're probably overwhelmed with sheer volume, but still. And, of course, I've never heard back from the copyright holder, who has no incentive to get involved.