Not as blatant as copyrighting silence, but still: I’ve recently attempted to upload my short film The Things We Found in the Attic to YouTube, which features a Creative Commons-licensed version of a rather famous cello piece composed by J.S. Bach I...
View Separately

Not as blatant as copyrighting silence, but still: I’ve recently attempted to upload my short film The Things We Found in the Attic to YouTube, which features a Creative Commons-licensed version of a rather famous cello piece composed by J.S. Bach I lifted from the Archive.org Community Audio collection. But try to get that past YouTube’s automatic cops! Despite the fact the composer has been dead for 260 years, therefore back in copyright only by early 22nd century (if copyright expansionism keeps its current pace), YouTube’s audiofingerprinting system flags the music as owned by Sony BMG (they might ‘own’ another performance, but who cares?), banning the video from a list of countries consisting of… all there is, basically.

Strangely, Web searches (not just on Google, which can’t obviously be trusted on this) are rather thin on this issue of false positives in YouTube audio fingerprinting system; a surprise since I expected this issue to be rather recurrent. Perhaps people just give up. Anyway, here’s a YouTube version of The Things We Found in the Attic that doesn’t violate any imaginary copyrights. With a link encouraging you to watch the infringing version.

2391 Notes/ Hide

  1. swordgunbrella reblogged this from thesixpennybook
  2. rubbishfromkate reblogged this from dwellerinthelibrary
  3. sewnro reblogged this from adamlore and added:
    adamlore is my brother. And I love, love, LOVE him.
  4. adamlore reblogged this from riveroforchids-blog and added:
    “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In...
  5. crnkl reblogged this from virtualconsole
  6. memorianas reblogged this from emmagrant01
  7. nonsensemachine reblogged this from fourteenth
  8. thesunisthere reblogged this from fourteenth
  9. lorenzomakesthings reblogged this from nieberdinges
  10. stick2sherlock reblogged this from saffythegeek
  11. rachelthefish reblogged this from nieberdinges
  12. tea-wizard reblogged this from fuchcyf
  13. cupofteaforthedyingpatient reblogged this from fuchcyf
  14. whizlaqueefa reblogged this from saffythegeek
  15. saffythegeek reblogged this from nieberdinges
  16. inky posted this