I just read this blog post about YouTube Content-ID matching system mishaps and false rights claims by the copyright owners: http://www.geekosystem.com/wind-sound-content-id/
Last year, I had a few videos with the live-recorded music for which YouTube claimed the copyright (music itself, not the recording, while that music was in a public domain by all laws and rules). It looked just as a fishing expedition by those copyright holding companies. It took me some effort to have them releasing those claims. (Of course, everything is automazingly-dehumanized, hence, no apologies.) Having read this blog post where some company claims rights on the wind sounds and bird-singing, I am thinking that I should copyright the sound of sunshine and moonshine (not the liquid), before somebody has done that. (I might copyright the visual appearance as well, what the heck?!) And if in addition I can copyright the sounds of running water and flashing toilet, I'll be rich! Cheers, Igor PS. Interesting, that Google's support pages say: "Don't enable generic material for Content ID matching (e.g, white noise, waves crashing, or applause)": https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2605065?hl=en -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
