Tag: United States federal legislation
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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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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…
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R2D2PAC: Star Wars Gangsta
When I saw the video of the spooky Tupac hologram at Coachella, I KNEW something like this would shortly hit the streets…very good! Although Star Wars has kinda got there before. Yes Star Wars is pre-parodying itself, as we saw in my previous post… As I said online though, I never really got the whole…
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Soapbox: why I support the EFF (and ORG)
You might have noticed the little Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group banners that have been at the bottom right of this blog for years…why do I support them? Well for one, although I’m not in the States I support the EFF because currently they are fighting for you and I to be able…