I had my first copyright dispute on YouTube a few weeks ago (well it seems, 30 days ago) when I posted the video of Red River Valley, a folk song that has been around since late in the century before last. It seems someone had mass registered rights to some songs and included a Finnish song that uses the same tune as that old cowboy's love song.
I'm not as wild about the earnings I might get from a handful of people watching my video as I am the freedom to re-use cultural works within reason. It's what makes the creative economy go round, if everything is rights-protected and if there's nothing new under the sun then how do we ever progress? I know I'm mostly preaching to the converted here...
Anyway - feel free to have another listen and click through to YouTube to see what lovely ad they play with it and boost my ad earnings, you never know I might get a payout one of these years :)
Wow that's getting ridiculous!
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This is the version that had been claimed for...
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There must be lots of songs with a similar tune. I can see that lawyers are trying to milk Youtube with software looking for similarities. There's lots of blatant copyright infringement there with people uploading commercial recordings.
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I've heard that nearly every pop song for ages only uses 4 chords so you can sing one to the other barely missing a beat. Let's see... (searching the interwebz...)
And I think the chords are in C, G, A minor, and F LOL
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Most of the songs I've written are G, C and D
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Clap,clap,clap!
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Congratulations on your victory! I just watched on YouTube with a thumbs up and a comment. :)
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