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A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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Re: A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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I secretly wish I had the background law knowledge to screw with people who attempt to send these letters. I get C&D letters from youtube because my videos allegedly contain copyright music. The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted.

Re: A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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I secretly wish I had the background law knowledge to screw with people who attempt to send these letters. I get C&D letters from youtube because my videos allegedly contain copyright music. The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted.

my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted

Your voice isn't copyrighted, but you might infringe if you were singing a copyrighted song.

Re: A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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post #3

Sadly, the letter is unreadable on Firefox Android. It's like everything is a widget these days, web pages are no longer self-contained, and usability, among other things, suffers.

Also unreadable where i work where scribd is basically useless. Would be nice if people linked to pdfs instead of scribd.

Re: A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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post #4

I secretly wish I had the background law knowledge to screw with people who attempt to send these letters. I get C&D letters from youtube because my videos allegedly contain copyright music. The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted.

my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted Your voice isn't copyrighted, but you might infringe if you were singing a copyrighted song.

It was a joke but I didn't know that (hence my secret desire to learn more about law). They are simple computer tutorials.

Re: A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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I secretly wish I had the background law knowledge to screw with people who attempt to send these letters. I get C&D letters from youtube because my videos allegedly contain copyright music. The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted.

Your voice may not be subject to performance copyright violations, but it can assuredly invoke lyrical copyright violations. edit, cached, i lost the race.

Re: A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

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I secretly wish I had the background law knowledge to screw with people who attempt to send these letters. I get C&D letters from youtube because my videos allegedly contain copyright music. The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted.

> The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted

From the moment you saved your recording of your voice, you were granted copyright protection to that work. The only recordings for which a copyright doesn't exist are those old enough to be in the public domain. Even a recording that infringes someone else's copyright is still protected by its own copyright rights; you can't distribute it without causing damages to the other rights holder, but the author still has exclusive rights to their creation.

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