mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtube-mutes-videos
The official notice from YouTube under the video says the following: "This video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by all copyright holders. seal If YouTube starts being thorough about this, you can expect to see a significant percentage of all YouTube videos muted. The implications are a bit different than with removing copyrighted professionally produced content, like an official music video; we're talking about tens of thousands of fan made videos, funny spoofs, remixes and the like being pretty much destroyed, and I'm guessing users will be less than thrilled about it.
January 14th, 2009 at 4:33 am I think there is a business opportunity here for Youtube to get into music licensing. "Dear X, we disabled the soundtrack on your video due to a complaint from $RIAA_Company. You will find this rate competitive with other web sites which sell stock audio products. We are eager to re-enable the soundtrack on your masterpiece as soon as an amicable agreement is reached.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:03 am Well I've never ever used any music I don't have a right to but I reckon this could really upset some youtubers. They will need hundreds of editors to listen to all the videos to see which ones are using copyrighted music.
v=wGnOKSlIHXU tons of commenters asked "What's that song at the end?" Many commenters answered that, providing free impressions for the artist, and probably driving some people to get the song on itunes. Youtube may not realize, or may not care, but they're losing attractiveness.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:25 am YouTube is the 900 pound gorilla. I'm sure they had a great deal of pressure to make this move. However, I'm not so pessimistic about how this all shakes out. I see it as an opportunity to for artists who get social media to move yet another step away from the legacy music industry.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:33 am Hi, I am a pro musician/ producer, if this is true, I guess Youtube has to bring up a big team who has to do an intensive research regarding about the originality of the music. On the surface, it may seem easy to get rid of the top 40 songs illegally used by the video up- loader, however, there are many cases which consist of the infamous side tracks. Also, what about an uploaded movie showing a taxi driver singing," Beat it" while he drives during his work? Will the special "Youtube music team" have an intensive music database coving different genres of music from all over the world? Also, I have found over 50 video clips from music fans coving my original composed song on Youtube, I treasured this as an honor and definitely don't want all these video being muted in Youtube.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:39 am So, is it you or Techcrunch that can't be bothered to find their own examples when ripping off news? As for death of YouTube - FFS, do you know what proportion of their videos are music? Me niehter, but I'm guessing it's slightly less than the 100% you guys seem to be assuming...
January 14th, 2009 at 8:11 am This lesson in copyright law was long overdue. We simply do not have the legal right to take someone else's copyrighted work and do whatever we want with it.
January 14th, 2009 at 8:15 am As an artist myself (multi-faceted musician, photographer, part-time graphic designer, and writer) I disagree with how this is being handled. When a fan uploads a fan video of any sort (with the musician's song), the band receives free promotion. Someone may see that video, hear that song, check out the artist, and end up supporting them. As it is, this only makes it harder to find the musician's music. No one makes money off uploading someone else's music to Youtube. They might get a few comments, but it's not like they're stealing it from the artist.
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