Topic: You Tube video muted by Copyright owner
OK folks, I always like to play clean and post videos of Joes performances and unrelated videos with Joe's tracks on the back of them with credits and promotions in line with the stated policy published on here. Some years ago, before the present request for publicity for J&R existed, I posted a video about a shark dive i filmed in the Bahamas, with Joe's version of "Tea for One" on the back. It's played happily for many years to anyone who chose to view it. Now I was showing it to a couple of friends today on my Android phone and it played fine, but when I got home from work I was greated by the following e-mail from YouTube.
Dear Geoff Oldfield,
Your video "Bahamas Shark Dive", may have content that is owned or licensed by INgrooves. As a result, the video’s audio has been muted.
Visit your Copyright Notice page for more details on the policy applied to your video.
Yours sincerely,
- The YouTube Team
I don't know whether that has coincided with a very recent upgrade that You Tube have made to their server, but it was most unwelcome as you can expect. I can only assume that the original copyright owner rather than Joe's policy maagement have launched this injunction.
However, on further investigation I find that J&R are in fact new label partner http://www.ingrooves.com/our-label-partners/
So maybe it is Joe's (or more likely Roy's) decision to reign in the use of Joe's material.
Here is the offending video, with muted track and you will see my comment about the music posted at that time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzf4vRk … re=mh_lolz
Furthermore, upon querying the claim, the following questions are asked
I believe that this copyright claim is not valid, because:
I own the CD/DVD or bought the song online.
I'm not selling the video or making any money from it.
I gave credit in the video.
The video is my original content and I own all of the rights to it.
I have a licence or written permission from the proper rights holder to use this material.
My use of the content meets the legal requirements for fair use or fair dealing under applicable copyright laws.
The content is in the public domain or is not eligible for copyright protection.
All of which are tick box questions (you can only tick one) I tried to tick several but had to opt for "I gave credit in the video (comments section) and the reply........
"Giving credit does not give you authorisation to upload the content. Even if you never claimed to own the copyright or gave the copyright owner credit, posting these videos on YouTube may violate copyright law."
So it seems things are changing.
regards
Geoff