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The "original" "song" in this case is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ClqZHkSnc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ClqZHkSnc It is not ripped from my v
by marcan_42 5y ago
The "original" "song" in this case is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ClqZHkSnc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ClqZHkSnc
It is not ripped from my video; it's just someone else typing on a keyboard. Content ID just seems prone to throwing false positives on non-musical noises, since it doesn't understand that the frequency spectrum over time of noise isn't copyrightable like the frequency spectrum over time of music is.
That said, yes, the system is broken in more weird ways. I have a video where I played back a B&W music video through a laser projector, and YouTube keeps offering me to make copyright claims against other videos of the same song/MV run through edge-detection algorithms and filters that look similar. The funny thing is that video is (correctly) Content ID copyright claimed/monetized by the song's owners, but I guess I have the right to place a sub-claim on copies of the video part? (even though none of the hits are actual rips of my video, just people doing similar stuff to the same source material, so they're all false positives anyway). These algorithms just don't understand derivative works; when two people use the same source material, it just thinks one ripped off the other.
I did get one actual wholesale match of a rip-and-reupload against an original video of mine though, claimed it, and the author did take it down, so it worked as intended in that one case. But the false positive rate is atrocious.
Edit: upon further inspection, the website of the distributor for the "song" in question says they specialize in Content ID and it's suspiciously generic: https://www.umag.io/ https://www.umag.io/. That makes me wonder if they're just a front for Content ID abuse. The "song" isn't stolen, but it might've been distributed as part of a collection of fluff to see if they get Content ID hits on noise. There are no hits for this "artist" other than the music stores themselves.