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Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

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Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

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This is really bad! YouTube should find ways to respond to misclaimed tracks as a creator. Also companies / individuals that claim public domain music should be banned from the platform.

Or creators should promote public domain platforms like archive.org instead of complaining that a commercial platform is run like that

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

#82
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No. Mandating real people won't help. I've dealt with real support people who are exactly as useless as the website's FAQ. They're powerless to make any special exceptions to the predefined process or even to escalate to someone who can. As an example, I can't use my main email address for an Apple ID account because apparently somebody else set it as their backup email and I may have carelessly clicked the accept li…

You could try doing an account recovery (leverage that email) and just change it to something else.

I think I lost the email which was many years prior, and also I would need to know the actual email of the account it's linked to, which I don't.

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

#83
post #5

This is fraud. They claim they have right to something they don't, when you dispute, YouTube just directing them the dispute and they reject. As you don't want to risk 3 strike, you agree to share revenue. Basically Youtube doing nothing.

Have you ever tried to report fraud to authorities? Even if you show overwhelming evidence, details of perpetrator, chances are LE will laugh you out and say it is a civil matter.

LE might also decide they look funny and launch a frivolous prosecution against you.

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

#85
I used the YouTube studio editor to add a piece from YouTube's library of music in the public domain to a small video of no real consequence, and then, ten years later, received a copyright claim on that audio. The system is really truly fucked.

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

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post #74
post #49

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Upload videos to her own website. Problem solved.

Great idea. There's also Peertube (joinpeertube.org) which is free and open source software. I've seen many content creators migrating there and they're now free from this kind of abuse. (Note: I have no relationship with them apart from just admiring a beautiful work that the people at Framasoft do.)

Activitypub ftw!

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

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How? I gave this a shot, but it was such a hassle to get it working. Hosting, automatic resampliny of videos to different quality, CDN stuff. Is there an easy way to host videos yourself?

Peertube, self hosted or upload to a public istance

Federation is really the answer. I would much rather upload content to peertube than bitchute or YouTube. Although, invidious is a nice answer to YouTube problems, in some aspects

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

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post #59

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Yes, I get it and my comment was intended tongue-in-cheek. But still... not everyone goes to YT for monetization in which case I really think it's just better not to use it. I'm probably too old but I remember a time when we had plenty of visibility on the web without platforms dictating the content.

You mean your Geocities homepage which got a fabulous 121 hits in 1997? ;)

Why would you assume that videos have to be shared to YouTube to get views? I really hope that the majority of adults know how to click on or share a hyperlink. If not, there is a big problem.

Re: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

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Summary for those that don’t want to watch the video : - Pianist creates YouTube video demonstrating how to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata - part of this video includes her playing Moonlight Sonata (of course) - YouTube has a new ‘feature’ that scans submitted videos prior to publication to identify potentially copyrighted material - her video is found to include copyrighted material. She is certain this is a mist…

A really great video (if you're willing to spend the better part of an hour watching it) about this is YouTube's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is.[1] by Tom Scott.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

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