James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement
because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth
of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for
300 years.
Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.
Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.
Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.
Realistically people need to sue these companies with fraudulent copyright claims. Also this is feeling like a challenge to figure out a way YouTube censors don’t delete music that is not copyrighted. Unless Sony has proof Bach willed copyright to them or they are a direct descendent you can’t claim copyright on something you didn’t create. If I had the money to be a shit I would send cease and desist letters to YouTube because their logo is infringement because I had a dream about it before they used it so I own copyright. Like flat out bullshit waste of time because it’s obviously bull… but while they are going through proceedings it puts them in the spotlight which they don’t want. Other than a stunt like that? I kinda doubt much will be changed. This is definitely a need media thing… except they own the media too don’t they?
Wow, this is pretty horrible. This applies to lots of newer music too. Several channels are getting content strikes for using music that was free to use 5 or more years ago when their videos were made, but now some company has bought the rights and going strike happy.
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