So I have a few videos up on YouTube, and yeah they infringe on copyright because I include snippets from various songs owned by other people, so of course that leads to me getting an email from YouTube saying that my video McRubbish may have content that is owned or licensed by WMG.
It goes on:
No action is required on your part.
No action is required except that it still means your entire video now has no audio. At all. That's all well and good for people posting complete songs on the 'tube, but mine was part of a song appearing part way through a movie made by me.
So all the audio is gone. Not just C'Mon C'Mon by the Von Bondies. So apparently WMG don't want their audio messed with, but my audio - the audio that didn't have anything to do with WMG at all - they can mess with that.
YouTube allow you to swap out the music with a song from their library of available music. That's sweet, but it swaps out ALL OF THE AUDIO OF THE VIDEO. So that's awesome if I wanted to replace everything I said with SOME COUNTRY SONG NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF, but otherwise I'm stuck with no audio.
I ended up giving up and just deleting the video altogether, which is what they want of course, and fair enough they blank the audio that belongs to them - but the audio that belongs to me they could have left that well alone.
But what can you do? They're WMG and YouTube and I'm well, me.
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I can understand entirely. They simply have to come to some agreement soon, all big companies of the music industry are losing money and I think its Sony Music and another that are gaining money via Youtube because they actually have channels for their big groups with videos and music on there, with adverts before they start, so with the millions of hits people are bound to take interest in the ads enough to pay for at least a single view of a flaming video.
ReplyDeleteFuck this issue winds me up something chronic... its sucking the life out of modern creativity and destroying it completely, instead of encouraging the creativity of individuals.
I hate the way this is right now, WMG are going to lose everything if they cant get their heads round thinkin that free viewing of their material isnt actually hurting anyone.. instead its advertising the material to others who might think "OOooohhhhh i like this track, im going to go to Itunes or whatever n buy it!!!!!"