Tag: Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation 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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RIAA Shenanigans – Radio Clash Podcast gets it’s first takedown
So yesterday I woke up to this email: July 20, 2020 Radioclash.comBradler & Krantz GmbH & Co. KG X20-440681595272916 Dear Sir or Madam: I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America,Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whosemember companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately…
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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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Complete CONtrol; or how Glasvegas and Columbia need to get a clue
I’d like to think doing an own goal on the Net is known as doing a Metallica; like being Dooced, it’s where you go against your own fans (as with Metallica and Napster, and recently having a go at bloggers daring to write about them). But that’s restricted to aging non-technical metal leather blokes right?…