Anyone else get their videos taken off Youtube for music copyright reasons?
They just removed one of my videos for that reason… For using the song All my friends are dead by Turbonegro. And I just received a email backing my video with hoobastanks song peices.
These bands for some reason care that their 10 year old songs are getting free publicity? Wow… I have put music credits in all of my videos anyway.
Not me.
That sucks dude.
That blows.
I got an email from youtube saying that such and such music company saying I used their copywrited matieral in my video but they still didn’t take it down…
Sucks man. Sorry.
I’m not sure, but I think that when you render a video with the MP3 file that you downloaded, the file informations stays with the video…
Try to open the song in Sound Forge or Audacity, and re-export it in MP3… With your name in the autor information!
All clips that I edited the songs and saved again, I didn’t have problems!
I just had a video pulled a couple days ago as well. The song was “Hip Hop is Dead” by Nas.
Most likely it is not the band that has a problem with you using the song, its the greedy label that owns the rights and wants to squeeze every penny out of it.
I’ve bought off itunes songs that I have first heard in videos many times, its always going to be the bands loss.
Was it a unicycling video that was removed?
Happened to me the other day, fortunately it wasnt a uni vid
They took off my first video “random unicycle footage” about a week ago. Had a song by 2pac.
The other day my BC Wheel video that was on my old account got taken off because I used the song Jack Johnson - Breakdown.
It had 7,000 + views…
Oh well…
-Isaac
Our Whole Old Accound was deleted! I was Sooooooooo Mad… like 18 vids were on there,… Now i go to Vimeo,
That is a shame, that band(Turbonegro) and that song both rule.
It’s not that hard to find royalty free / public domain music. You guys are just being lazy, and complaining because you got caught violating copyright.
Do the right thing when you put your videos together, and you’ll never have to worry about this happening to you.
Those take down notices are fair. You’re misinterpreting the “Fair Use” clause of the Copyright Act.
I’m guessing you’re referring to this clause: “reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson”.
Most unicycle videos aren’t using a “small part of a work” and that “work” isn’t illustrating a lesson. Most unicycle videos use a whole song, or most of it, and the song has nothing to do with teaching people to unicycle.
It’s not the mp3 info, they actually can analyze the sound itself and can figure out the song from that. There are other apps that will let you hum a tune or “play” it using just your space bar… if you heard a song on the radio, but don’t know what it is, you can find out.
I got a notice saying that one of my videos uses copyrighted music, but the record label hasn’t complained yet… they just get tracking info on how many people see the vid etc 
Actually, it seems strange to me that they are getting taken down. Maestro, I think you’re being a bit ridiculous about the subject as well. I have talked to filmmakers, and they say that as long as you never sell a video or make money from it in any way, there are no restrictions about where you film (ie getting permits from cities to show your footage), or what music you use. This is definitely true for film festivals, and so online videos should not be any different. The only way I can see if they wanted to take them down was if they expected taht people were watching the video for the sole purpose of listening to the song (like the videos you see where it’s just a blank screen with the song name on it).
Mine have never been taken down!
See ya!
Kevin
That sounds awesome, do you happen to have any links to the applications you’re talking about?
I once was given a notice about a copyright violation for using a Rise Against song. My video not removed, but the notification told me that the record company could put advertisements on page with the video.
Saying that copyright law is ridiculous is one thing, but using that stance to argue that you should be allowed to break the law is another.
Whether or not I find traffic laws ridiculous, I’ll still get a ticket if I drive through my neighborhood at 100 MPH.
This may help your case if you’re taken to court, but it doesn’t make your act legal. Copyright law is not contingent on financial transactions, although certain nonprofit organizations and institutions are exempted with specific conditions, none of which are met by most YouTube video authors.
…because, AFAIK, geographical locations aren’t copyrighted. We’re talking about copyright violation in this thread, let’s not confuse the issue.
The exemption in copyright law that applies to film festivals expressly states “performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work otherwise than in a transmission to the public”. Online videos are “transmissions to the public”, and unlike film festivals, online videos are accessible at any time and from any place.
Online videos are definitely different.
It could be argued that the public dissemination of a copyrighted work diminishes its potential market and/or value. This is reason enough to remove videos containing unlicensed, copyrighted material.
Two problems here. First one is the source. Some filmmakers may be incredibly knowledgeable about copyright issues, but most are not, and none of them are lawyers. In other words, even coming from someone “in the business”, legal advice must be assumed to be general and not necessarily accurate.
The second problem is the “making money from it” part. This online availability of videos these days is definitely a new category for media distribution. The person posting the video is not making a dime, but two other things are happening. One is that YouTube (or whoever owns the site) is making money from it, either through ads on the page or whatever. If they aren’t, the site won’t be up for very long. The other is that you can use the videos you post as parts of a resume. In other words, to promote yourself as a filmmaker. Though I doubt that angle is a factor in this music copyright stuff, Maestro just wants to remind you of why your videos are being taken down. It ain’t your music to do with as you please, at least not in such a public place.
Perhaps the main reason why YouTube is taking stuff down is to protect themselves from massive lawsuits by the copyright owners. If they don’t show that they are at least doing something about the problem, they might be in danger of very expensive lawsuits coming their way from record companies or individual artists.