Submission + - Youtube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music Owned By "Rumblefish" (google.com) 2
eeplox writes: I make nature videos for my Youtube channel, generally in remote wilderness away from any possible source of music. And I purposely avoid using a soundtrack in my videos because of all the horror stories I hear about Rumblefish filing claims against public domain music.
But when uploading my latest video, Youtube informed me that I was using rumblefish's copyrighted content, and so ads would be placed on my video, with the proceeds going to said company. This baffled me.
I disputed their claim with Youtube's system, and Rumblefish refuted my dispute and confirmed that:
"All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:
Entity: rumblefish Content Type: Musical Composition"
So I asked some questions, and it appears that the birds singing in the background of my video are Rumblefish's exclusive intellectual property.
My only option at this point is to lawyer-up and fight it out in the courts, which of course isn't going to happen over a Youtube video that'll only be seen by a few hundred people. More likely I'll just end up deleting the video.
But when uploading my latest video, Youtube informed me that I was using rumblefish's copyrighted content, and so ads would be placed on my video, with the proceeds going to said company. This baffled me.
I disputed their claim with Youtube's system, and Rumblefish refuted my dispute and confirmed that:
"All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content:
Entity: rumblefish Content Type: Musical Composition"
So I asked some questions, and it appears that the birds singing in the background of my video are Rumblefish's exclusive intellectual property.
My only option at this point is to lawyer-up and fight it out in the courts, which of course isn't going to happen over a Youtube video that'll only be seen by a few hundred people. More likely I'll just end up deleting the video.
That's not copyright, it's copywrong! (Score:3)
When does it stop (Score:2)
At what point do we say it's all too hard, remember we are human and turn this whole fucking Internet thing off.
Starve these fuckers. Ignore them. Burn up their ad expenditures. Build a bot net plug in to download, harras, upload crap,randomly click 76 of the 300 ads on each page, generate 10000 billion spams each and totally fuck the whole system into a tectonic grind.
The Internet was supposed to be free, fun and non commercial. The last 17 years of my life feels like treason.
Time to let loose the bots