[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-30 Thread David van Ooijen
Guess what: YouTube send me a 'personal' e-mail (signed by Sander) saying the disputed videos have been found to be all right after all I take it all back, apparently somebody _is_ listening at the other end of the line. David - escaped Kafka this time On 29 January 2012 22:26, David van Ooijen

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-30 Thread David Tayler
Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sun, January 29, 2012 2:42:03 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights? All the popsongs I upload for my guitarkids are under copyright. YouTube warns me, but no further action by me is required. They put adds on it, the copyright holders

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-29 Thread Peter Nightingale
David, I play at a restaurant once a week. For a while, the owner was being harassed periodically about copy right. I suggested that the goon doing the dirty work stop by to look at my music. Ultimately, they, whoever they were, gave up. Youtube is in the drivers' seat, which makes thing a

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-29 Thread howard posner
On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:26 PM, David van Ooijen wrote: YouTube asks me to prove it's Public Domain. I told them it's 18th cenury music, come to us in manuscripts and old prints. And I asked them what kind of prove they want for this. And they haven't responded yet, I take it. They may not.

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-29 Thread wikla
Wow! That is interesting! Why don't they ask me too? ;-)) Arto On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:32:36 +0100, David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com wrote: Some of you post videos on YouTube of yourselves playing early music in your own home. So do I. Public domain music, nothing commercial, no

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-29 Thread David van Ooijen
On 29 January 2012 23:14, wikla wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: That is interesting! Why don't they ask me too?  ;-)) Count your blessings. I think as a rule it is best to be forgotten by the world. David -- *** David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-29 Thread sbk
I had this problem last February after uploading some Tarrega (on a Torres guitar copy). In whatever it was that notified me that publishers thought they wanted to slap some ads on these, there was an option to challenge it and say that in fact I had the rights or permission to use

[LUTE] Re: YouTube claiming early music rights?

2012-01-29 Thread David van Ooijen
All the popsongs I upload for my guitarkids are under copyright. YouTube warns me, but no further action by me is required. They put adds on it, the copyright holders are supposed to benefit from them. Fair enough. My own material, I can 'monetise', meaning they put adds on it for which I am