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Not come across this before. We know that youtube is very good at identifying audio in the background of essentially video projects. I don't normally use youtube for my business because loads of my pictures have some kind of audio in the background - it was just playing with the images were shot. They identify these and slap on an advert - for many things this is fine, but occasionally a client wants something put on youtube as a private video, and you send them the link, and nobody else can see it without knowing the link url.
I got this morning, two copyright notifications - these were one year old clips from a body building competition we shot here in the UK. The audio was simply the music played at the event when they were doing all that muscle stuff. The finished product was created and used by them with the appropriate licensing of the audio - what we do fairly commonly for limited distribution products, we have a nice scheme here that allows this to be done fairly paperwork light.
This clip was a problem clip - submitted to the client to look at due to some issues. I'd forgotten the clip was even on the youtube account (we normally use Paid for Vimeo).
So it seems Youtube are going through private videos looking for music use that could be used to generate payments for copyright owners, then starting the system off. This one was solved with a very simple delete, as it's not important - but what about people who share their wedding videos with their family, where the DJ is playing tracks for the first dance - that kind of thing? This seems a bit harsh when by the private status, it patently is NOT public, which triggers the copyright.
Anyone care to comment?
I got this morning, two copyright notifications - these were one year old clips from a body building competition we shot here in the UK. The audio was simply the music played at the event when they were doing all that muscle stuff. The finished product was created and used by them with the appropriate licensing of the audio - what we do fairly commonly for limited distribution products, we have a nice scheme here that allows this to be done fairly paperwork light.
This clip was a problem clip - submitted to the client to look at due to some issues. I'd forgotten the clip was even on the youtube account (we normally use Paid for Vimeo).
So it seems Youtube are going through private videos looking for music use that could be used to generate payments for copyright owners, then starting the system off. This one was solved with a very simple delete, as it's not important - but what about people who share their wedding videos with their family, where the DJ is playing tracks for the first dance - that kind of thing? This seems a bit harsh when by the private status, it patently is NOT public, which triggers the copyright.
Anyone care to comment?
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