I see this kind of thing happening all the time, facilitated by third parties. For example, a few months ago I found this funny video of some trombonists playi

I see this kind of thing happening all the time, facilitated by third parties. For example, a few months ago I found this funny video of some trombonists playing Bruchner in unusual situations[1] that had been uploaded on 14th September 2015 and noticed it had an obviously-bogus copyright claim for the music ("Song: Calling You (Live), Artist: FUN, Licensed to YouTube by (on behalf of FUN); Songtrust, Sony ATV Publishing, and 2 music rights societies"), with a link to where this bogus "song" had been uploaded[2]. The "song" proved to be a video consisting of the original trombone video's soundtrack played twice, over an unrelated static image, that had been uploaded on 13th May 2021—six years after the video it was ripping off. There was enough information on the "song" video to find out that it had been supplied to YouTube by a company called TuneCore[3] who according to their website offer to "SELL YOUR MUSIC WORLDWIDE: Get your music on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, TikTok, Tencent & more". I contacted TuneCore in July to point out that their service was being abused, but got a semi-automated reply to the effect that unless it was _my_ copyright that was being infringed they weren't interested. I replied, and also responded to their automated did-Jira-help-you-today survey, in both cases pointing out that they were (however inadvertently) involved in fraudulent activity but (unsurprisingly) never heard back. I see now that the TuneCore 'song' video has been made private, but the original trombone video still carries the false copyright claim. So frustrating. [1] https://youtu.be/rY0m2cLH1m8 https://youtu.be/rY0m2cLH1m8 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-577Wp8yBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-577Wp8yBQ - now private [3] https://www.tunecore.com/ https://www.tunecore.com/