David, I play at a restaurant once a week. For a while, the owner was being harassed periodically about copy right. I suggested that the goon doing the dirty work stop by to look at my music. Ultimately, they, whoever they were, gave up.
Youtube is in the drivers' seat, which makes thing a little more difficult. to Youtube, you could send them a big chunk of e.g. Sarge's web site as a sample of your repertoire and ask them which of those pieces they consider problematic. I can get you a tar ball that you can toss at them to see what sticks. If you use email to send the information to Youtube, you will probably over-fill their in-box, which will result in a bounce. In that case, there are simple tools to cut things into smaller pieces, which you can send until you reach their limit. I'm not sure how annoyed you would have to get to do this, nor do I fully understand the legal implications of the proposed action. If communication runs via a web form, chances are that the communication will time out before the tar ball will have been uploaded. In that case, you may have not accomplished little but a nuisance for yourself, although you could argue that you tried to respond ... I could also put whatever you want to send to them on my web site: all Youtube's to download. A colleague who used to work for IBM told me that the company responded to a federal investigation by sending a train load (literally) of documents. What the only the 0.1% could do then, the 99% percent can now do too. Peter. On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, David van Ooijen wrote: > Some of you post videos on YouTube of yourselves playing early music > in your own home. So do I. Public domain music, nothing commercial, no > arrangements by others, nobody else in the video. YouTube offered the > option to 'generate income' by placing adds next to the videos. Why > not. But now I'm getting messages from YouTube saying that they cannot > verify that I own the rights of my clips of me playing Weichenberger, > De Vis?e, Sanz, Bach, whatnot. What is happening here, and how do I > stop it? Any experience out there? > > David > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > [email protected] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > The next auto-quote (sent from my commercial-free computer) is: With of without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil -- that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
