Tag: Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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YouTuber gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven
Today’s entry in Copycrazy-right? is Marina from The Piano Keys, a musical blogger who does tutorials on how to play pieces on the piano for the last five years. She did a video on Piano Sonata No, 14 aka Moonlight Sonata, playing a piece written by Beethoven in 1801. She then got a copyright claim…
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Make YouTube Great Again
Great explanation of Copyright and Fair use by Matthias, in a campaign stared by GradeAUnderA called #MakeYouTubeGreatAgain…given my background of musical mashup piracy and unofficial remix I must be against this creator copyright business, right? Wrong. I’ve been affected on YouTube by baseless claims, DMCAs from companies that don’t even OWN the things they’re claiming,…
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Google fights for fair use
Google are offering to legally fight DMCA on fair use grounds on a few selected videos? This could be big…especially if they get case law and win. Remember this if your video mashups or remixes are taken down – you’re all definitely in the fair use category. As they said: We’re doing this because we…
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Ooh Uptown Funk NPG is gonna get you…
The list of how many songs ripped off by Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk gets higher and higher. Latest is Jungle Love by the Time, I wonder if Prince/NPG/The Time will go all Tom Petty on their arse? I called this one, Mezzoforte – Garden Party which was released in 1982, pedant fans: But others called…
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How NOT to file a DMCA
OK, DMCA and Cease and Desist as a mashup artist are inevitable, but I think this wins the award for the most stupid I’ve received. Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows anyone to file a claim, and pull a file down for copyright infringement. This is most usually seen to bad effect on YouTube, where we…
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…