Most of my videos now “match third party content”. I always dispute and 95% of the time it is reversed within minutes and the rest of the time it takes a few days. I suspect it’s all done by bots.
Danny On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:04 AM, WALSH STUART <[email protected]> wrote: > No doubt it's all my fault - but this is a strange case. I uploaded a video > to youtube yesterday and I got a notification: "Matched third-party content". > That's not the really odd bit though. > > The video I uploaded was a modern piece and I've done similar before and in > the description I have written the publication and the date. But yesterday, > perhaps > in a senior moment, I also included the publisher, OUP. As it was uploading > I got a notification that it was taking longer than normal. I thought > something was odd > and deleted the reference to OUP - but, perhaps too late. On the other hand > it's also possible that notification of "Matched third-party content" is not > connected at all to my including > OUP in the description. > > If I click on "Matched third-party content" I get this screen: > > http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Untitled-1.jpg > > So my video 'may include a song owned by a third party' and one or more music > publishing societies may administer the rights. But the really, really odd > thing is that youtube is > very clear at the point in the video in which the 'matched content' > starts...15 seconds in... not from the beginning. But I am playing from the > very start of the video and after 15 seconds > I've got to bar 12. So the first 15 bars of Howard Skempton's Prelude 5 from > Images is not 'matched content' but after 15 seconds, for an unspecified > amount of time, it is. I now have two options: > to dispute or acknowledge this. (And I don't know what 'acknowledge' amounts > to) > > I contacted Howard Skempton, who seems to be a sporting chap and doesn't mind > me having a crack at his pieces on a lute, and told him about this. He > strongly urged me to dispute the matter. > > > If I choose to dispute it, I get this screen: > > http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/Untitled-2.jpg > > There are seven options and the first three tell me that they are not valid > and the 'acknowledge' button is inviting me to press it. Howard Skempton > tells me that OUP hold the rights. I > haven't got a licence or permission from OUP (just as hundreds of thousands > of others on youtube who are playing music from books they have - or haven't > - bought). > > Fair enough, I reluctantly suppose, OUP are the holders of the rights of > the score and I haven't got specific permission from OUP (even though the > actual composer is fine about it and I played the piece > and took the photo). > > But what does 'acknowledge' mean? And what about the first 15 seconds? > > Could this possibly be some sort of scam? If I click 'acknowledge' do adverts > start appearing and the minute amount of money start flowing - or trickling - > to some dodgy copyright corporation? > > > Stuart > > > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
