Wednesday, October 24, 2012

YouTube Copyright Claims

The evening before last was peaceful, until checking my email I noticed a copyright claim on the audio track of one of the mankview videos. Momentary panic, followed by breathing fire for a few minutes, led to an actuall viewing of the offending video and the pleasent memory that it was produced automatically by Cinescore from Sony (a product now discontinued). When disputing a copyright claim the warnings from Youtube are fierce - your channel may be banned .... or similar - but I knew I was right so clicked submit and waited. Thankfully the replay from CD Baby was that they had withdrawn their claim. Truth prevailed - but it would have been easy to have been intimadated into having adverting displayed for CD Baby's benefit. Of course no appology passed onto me - or any refernece to my lost time looking into it. I can't help wonder if companies whole file false claims receive any penalty? Somehow I doubt it - but if I had got it wrong.....
This is the "offending" video. The theme used is "Many Rivers" "Drifting Flute" variation.

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