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I've taken to tweeting every time my plugin-release videos are hit by a ContentID troll: https://twitter.com/applejinx/status/1070249318609752064 https://twitte

I've taken to tweeting every time my plugin-release videos are hit by a ContentID troll: https://twitter.com/applejinx/status/1070249318609752064 https://twitter.com/applejinx/status/1070249318609752064 I'm using Logic's Test Oscillator to generate white noise, which goes through my plugins to demonstrate how they react, and gets shown on a frequency analyzer. Some bright spark (over the years it has been more than one 'publisher') has ContentIDed noise… different sorts of noise… in order to stealth copyright strike people's videos and get revenue. If you file a complaint they quickly remove the claim so they're not noticed. Your only form for filing the complaint involves making a statement that you think they're doing it by mistake, and acknowledging that you know YouTube has nothing to do with it and won't do a thing about it. So this becomes an exercise I do over and over and over again. Or I suppose I could never use a test oscillator or noise source again, because somebody owns the idea of audio noise now. They've got a bunch of different EQings of noise, so demonstrating a filter is no refuge. Since once upon a time it was a different claimant, I think that from time to time someone gets YouTube to kick them out of ContentID: I've been told of some magic URL to go to where you can complain against this sort of abuse, but I don't remember what it was and don't know if it's helpful or actually dangerous for a creator to make use of such tools. I do know that it doesn't help because the Noise Owners come back under different names and keep operating. I've been dealing with this for YEARS.

Applejinx 8y ago
Also, Drew Gooden this November was not at all the first to copyright strike themselves: I've done that as well, uploading an old CD of my own music which, it turned out, I'd also distributed through CDBaby. I don't remember ever telling CDBaby to attack people on YouTube over my work, much less myself, and I wasn't able to get a satisfactory answer about whether I could withdraw from their automatic listing with ContentID, so I ended up removing the album from CDBaby entirely. I'm sure others have had that experience with CDBaby. Probably some find it valuable: as an individual I can't put stuff into ContentID, so it's one obvious way to jump to the 'abuser' side of the equation. I'm not clear on how you'd tell YouTube that you've licensed your music to somebody and to let their channel/etc play your content, and without that there's no commercial use to the system. Well, except for copyright striking stuff that's not yours and seizing tiny crumbs of ad revenue in however many hours or minutes you get before you're noticed. It's generally old videos so I'm sure the real paydirt here is copyright striking stuff that's old and forgotten. It's still pathetic because stuff like that doesn't get views…

Applejinx 8y ago

Also, Drew Gooden this November was not at all the first to copyright strike themselves: I've done that as well, uploading an old CD of my own music which, it turned out, I'd also distributed through CDBaby. I don't remember ever telling CDBaby to attack people on YouTube over my work, much less myself, and I wasn't able to get a satisfactory answer about whether I could withdraw from their automatic listing with ContentID, so I ended up removing the album from CDBaby entirely. I'm sure others have had that experience with CDBaby. Probably some find it valuable: as an individual I can't put stuff into ContentID, so it's one obvious way to jump to the 'abuser' side of the equation. I'm not clear on how you'd tell YouTube that you've licensed your music to somebody and to let their channel/etc play your content, and without that there's no commercial use to the system. Well, except for copyright striking stuff that's not yours and seizing tiny crumbs of ad revenue in however many hours or minutes you get before you're noticed. It's generally old videos so I'm sure the real paydirt here is copyright striking stuff that's old and forgotten. It's still pathetic because stuff like that doesn't get views…