These laws would affect ANY alternative as much as RUclips. Its in the hands of these corporations who are getting LAWS made to favor their interests. RUclips is pulling videos because if they dont THEY can get sued by BIG MUSIC! It would take a class action lawsuit against one of these BIG MUSIC company about FAIR USE and CENSORSHIP.
Thanks for stopping by and your encouragement! And yes, EU-Article 13 will hit even harder and we Europeans will be 'protected' by that Article 13 by not being able to see anything copyrighted in the very first place when the filters are programmed. The more I enjoy for now your videos where you are dissecting abused tube amps and make them breathe again. Nothing better than that. :))
Many valid points my friend... the system is broken.... we can but band together and since we're musicians who can figure things out... we'll figure this out too.... Thank you Mike for your thoughts on this matter !!.. be well sir !
Mike what you say is so true, it will come to a point where we will stop watching RUclips, it is a fact that artists will lose out if I like the song I will buy the song so that is revenue for the artist
I had a copyright flag on one of my videos of Dogwood Canyon. They said I used some music from Jimmy Hendricks. The only problem is there was no music in the video. I challenged them, and You Tube dropped the flag. That one still has me scratching my head trying to figure how they got that from the video. Oh well, I won that one, but you're right. The internet was supposed to be the free sharing of ideas and information, but since it became big money, it's being destroyed one user at a time.
You are so right, I have a bunch of content I couldn’t post, and also had to take down a few I shared, but we gonna find away to get the music across..... a guitar chord been copyrighted tho is crazy,.... and even breathing.... sigh 😔
For anyone who doesn't get how serious/stupid this is, if all of this CR BS comes to pass, companies (i.e. Gibson) could file claims simply for their products/logos appearing in a video. This is crazy, and it almost makes me glad that I went through all of this a few years ago, when all of this crap first started. I had nearly my entire channel deleted (over 100 guitar/music-related vids, except for 3), and lost thousands of subscribers. But, decided to just let it go, because unless you are a part of the top (1%) channels, it's not even worth the fight. Much love from the US, Mike! Give'em hell! And, I can wait for more of your vids! :)
Copy-write law allows "fair use" which includes educating, reviewing and criticising. Does Google not know that? Too much corporate greed. Is anyone up for starting a crowd funding campaign to launch a community owned video repository?
undercrackers56 - You don’t understand that Fair Use disputes have to be decided by a judge in a courtroom. You can claim fair use but you cannot by truly sure about it since every instance must be evaluated by itself. Although Diminis (brevity of portion of work) is generally helpful it has to be graded with the overall context. Many people use the entire work and try to pass that off as educational. Keeping it down to a few seconds can help but is no guarantee. It generally needs to be transformative. That’s vague and again a judge can only ultimately decide that.
78tag - If someone sued them they would probably be countersued just like someone being sued by them might have to counter sue them. If I am not mistaken they recently expanded the amount of time for songs to be in the Public Domain, in both the UK and the US. I think when “Love Me Do” by The Beatles entered the Public Domain in the UK around 1963 the powers that be changed it to 70 years from release date as opposed to the 50 years previously stipulated. It’s not retroactive so it would seem the Beatle’s stuff would mostly be in the PD but I’m not sure about that. In my opinion this is only going to make the situation worse. People live longer now and so do their immediate heirs but mostly corporations and their big wigs who are quite removed will benefit the most. In the US all recordings from 1957 to February 15, 1972 will fall into the public domain on February 15, 2067. To me that leaves a huge chunk of time for the music to be exploited by those who are born long after its creation.
This is all so much bullshit from RUclips and legal vampires. Playing someone's song only advertises it for the artist. It's like wearing a Pepsi t-shirt to advertise Pepsi and then being sued by Pepsi for copyright infringement!!!!! Down this road, companies will start to look at the backgrounds of videos and say 'Oh, there's our washing machine in the background of this video' we will sue this person..... even if the content is NOTHING to do with the machine or indeed anything in the background! This will not only affect RUclips but all internet sites!
The world has always been this way....it just gets around faster now. It started the day humans, or whatever they were, started communicating with each other. Humans are just another virus spreading around the planet until they also goes extinct.
That's ridiculous. The only claims I make, are when they copy my entire video and then just upload it as their own, or take my whole video and put their intro on it and call it their own. If they use 5 seconds of my content in their 20 minute video, it's not an issue. It's getting ridiculous out there.
and RUclips won't side video creators, but big corporations... I fought back EMI... I appealed 2 times and then sent a counternotification... RUclips sent me this message: "We believe you're not using our counternotification system properly" and they took my video down for using only 10 seconds of a song
Points well made Mike. I have respect for your views and many of the people you mentioned now the internet is a corrupted fishing net. How uncomplicated our world was when loving and learning songs was a respectful admiration and means of improving our craft, especially if the song had no available sheet music. Guitarists would share this knowledge before the internet- whether sitting with another guitarist or learning by ear with repetition of a section of a record, cassette, CD etc. I understand the copyright concern where an artist loses their entitlement but copyright of a chord shows how sad, crazy and greedy things have become. Don't be thwarted and I hope you continue with others to keep up your great work as it is very appreciated. Simon in Melbourne.
This is part of the very last death throws of a society that is about to implode. It has happened many times in past history that the weight of regulation, control and taxes on the people becomes so great that it is no longer accepted. The consequences will be horrendous.
I heard a couple of days ago that there’s already an alternative to RUclips. I hope it gets viral soon and everyone starts migrating to it. This platform is no longer free from hands of greedy corporations.
Google/RUclips isn’t the government. I am not lawyer, but I believe that Copyright law lets you use brief excerpts, use copyrighted materials for education, or to criticize copyrighted works. If big music publishers are impacting your income by making false legal claims, then that seems like an actual damage that civil suits are designed to remedy. I’d seriously consider consulting a real lawyer and filing a real lawsuit to collect actual and punitive damages. Juries rarely tolerate big companies bullying ordinary people, so you may actually win such a case in a real courtroom. I’m sure there are lawyers who would love to file a class-action suit on your behalf if there is a demonstrable pattern of abuse.
The music corps know they are dealing with individuals that can't afford to resist them. That is why RUclips should be handling this but don't because they are in with them for the $'s. They will keep doing it until it costs more to do it than not.....then they will find some other scam (the corps and YT).
Is there a copyright about even mentioning a name of anything in public in conversation with anybody. Oh dear, I talked about a favourite film, a favourite song, when do I get a copyright violation through the post?
Phil Gyles welcome to the 21st century. Where you are not allowed to say anything without offending someone or violating someone's "copyright" material. Shades of "Orwell's 1984"
This is the best summary of the far reaching aspects of the RUclips copyright claims situation that has recently come to be. RUclips is not responsible for this. I believe strongly that the great changes the Internet have brought now require the definition of use of copyrighted material to be reviewed and revised. This is about legal decisions from generations before the Internet existed and music companies earning more from artists that create great music than is ethically justifiable. This legal situation is out of control and must be corrected through politics affecting changes to make this rational.
This type of thing comes and goes. It will eventually go away, trust me. The sad bit is that channel owners are getting punished, just like they did the last time that this bullshit happened. Again, it will eventually go away. It's just going to take a little time. RUclips/Google will put an end to it. Watch.
MY OPINION goes like this: I produce youtube-videos by myself - just for fun - but I always try to do my own thing, my own style, my own creation. OF COURSE, I'm inspired by 50 years of listening good music - BUT it is always me, I'm not a copy of anybody and also my songs are not copies! ... BRINGING IT TO THE POINT: When I put my video to youtube - it is my personal descision to do it or not. AND when I give my video to the hole community for free - it is also my personal descision. IF I WOULD NOT LIKE, that anybody could use my video/my ideas/my songs - I should not bring it to youtube for free usage - I should keep it like a secret in my rooms! ... WE SHARE SAME THING / SAME LOVE / SAME ART / MUSIC as a free gift from heaven! ... SO SHIT on all that copyright-ideas and strong reglementations - the power behind is only: GETTING MONEY !! GETTING RICH !! ... enough is not enough ... and this is DEATH to every kind of beautiful soulful art !! ... STOP !!
Totally agree, that is where it is headed. Their basically setting a precedent to block people on a whim. Now its frivolous copyright claims, next it will be parody and criticism.
Hi Mike! 100% agree! It's not normally. Unfortunately digital world is totally controlled by few biggest corporations now. And their purposes is not care of good law-adding guys but their lucre only.
I saw this coming right from the beginning. This is why I didn't bother producing content and becoming dependent on RUclips to keep bread on my table. Here's a true story from personal experience. I was the guitar player in the up and coming L.A. band Lip Service from the fall of1979 to summer of 1982. We played all of the traditional L.A. clubs, the high schools, skate rinks etc. We were finally starting to get booked prime-time at Starwood, Gazzarri's, Troubadour, and the Whiskey. We were "on our way" as it were. Name producers we're courting us. Robin Williams used to come and hang out when we played Madam Wong's Chinatown and Bob Dylan introduced himself to me in front of Gazzarri's after we played there one night. Bob Dylan! We were offered a massive record deal (another story for another time) when the rug was pulled out from under the whole shebang when the guys who started the Lip Service novelty clothing store registered the name Lip Service even though we had been working under that original name for the past 3 years. But, because our inept manager (who's dead now) didn't register the Lip Service trademark we were served with an injunction prohibiting the use of the Lip Service name. By the way… One of the items the Lip Service store offered was hot pink Converse Chuck Taylor high tops which I originated. (I got fucked on that too!) Although I can empathize with copyright holders on this topic to a huge degree, and fair use does allow for commercially posted content, the copyright is still the creation of the copyright holder and they should be compensated accordingly.
Real censorship for political reasons aside (which can hold this madness for much longer and is an important reason to unleash these policies), just let them do that. After the wasteland where the copyright holders, RUclips and their advertisers will see that they have all been forgotten, nobody cares for their stuff and none of them is making money because content is gone and the one they produce is not talked about, shown, listened to and cared for, i.e. when their bottom line is going down and they hear crickets around them, they'll quickly pedal back and beg for someone to post 3 seconds of their precious intellectual properties. Use your own content and drive down their revenue and their exposure. Creators will still be able to make some profit, even if it's going to be hard but once the huge "word of mouth" disappears from the web money goes down for the big guns too. YT is not profitable already, once they will have to spend even more money for all the Art. 13 shenanigans measures and see important creators dropping down in their metrics, maybe leaving, viewership getting sluggins, people moving to alternative platforms, advertisers leaving with them they'll just raise their voice with their buddies (don't think for a second big tech, media corportations and governments are not part of the same big family) and we'll see what we've seen with newspapers fighting Google News and then coming back crying and whining for their new to be embeded again... They need our data, they know very well very few will subscribe to premium services, especially if the content offering is not that good and the price point is high, and - be it for business or for social control - they need our eyeballs ON the screen, not OFF it so... don't sweat it too much ;)
I used to have a video channel doing reactions for unsigned talent. Before I put a video up, I ALWAYS contacted the band and asked permission to do a reaction and asked what song they wanted me to do. I had e-mails and messages from the bands on file with permission.... fucking CD BABY.... the online retail fuckmode filed a copyright infringement on EVERY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO. They have no copyright on the music. They own not a fucking note of any music, and they claimed a copyright violation. I challenged the claim, and offered proof that I had permission from the actual people who owned the music, and RUclips told me that I had violated the copyright and shut down my channel.
This is what happens when lawyers/attorneys and corporations get involved in things they have no idea about. The world gone mad! Algorithms are one more step towards the computer governing of the masses. We already have computer 'courts' for small fines and violations. Only a matter of time folks.
Playing the music keeps it alive and opens it up to people who will potentially search out and buy it. Ive personally discovered a fair amountvof new music (new for me) through people playing on RUclips. It reminds me of Gail Zappa threatening lawsuits against anyone who would dare play her late husband's compositions live without her consent (including her own son).
This would be the perfect time for someone to create an alternative to RUclips, if it was solid enough everyone (myself included) would migrate to it and never open youtube again.
Here's a suggestion to deter nefarious copyright claims. Governments should mandate that You tube should introduce a fee on a sliding scale to levy against every claimant which will only be returned if after investigation the claim is upheld and also a suspension against the claimant if the claim is deemed nefarious. (The same model as landlords that now have to lodge their tenant's deposits and if a claim arises it is arbitrated by an independent ombudsman who's decision is binding.) At the moment It's blunt instrument and a huge swordfish dragnet to catch a few single minnows. It has to start by stopping politicians being lobbied by big corporations wanting to steer legislation in their favour. Here's the mechanism. Change.org BTW There's a punch up going on as we speak on both sides of the argument on this website with the copyright "owners" v the copyright "infringers". It will be a dirty fight.
Look at the people who are in charge these days! Look at MMA. Trans-men perform in women's leagues! WTF is going on? Good video! These days people are in the lead who have very big issues. They had a childhood with digital/virtual experiences. We are done!
It's insane - copy-writing a chord is like copy-writing a word or common phrase like: "Hello, how's it going?" It's out of control. Only way to change it is to stop using RUclips...
In Art Of The Film Classes at Universities they have to pay for a license to show movies. Like if you show a movie at a school event you need to rent the reel or pay a licensing agency. That’s not an effective argument.
Everybody should sue YT. I got copyright strikes for using Public Domain music! I bet we're going to start getting copyright strikes [next] for talking. Talking!!!
is getting ridiculous , so now if you play ,, D G A you may face a copyright clame ,, is because nobody is buying cd any more lable company try to make money in shady ways, and this why you start to see big artist from 80is or 70is play live , in a country they never visit before,
These claims brought down a brilliant channel with nothing but vintage declassified military and other educational type programs, even old advertising and sales-rep educational films. It moved to Vimeo, but I forget to go there.
At 13:45, you mention the exact reason i believe. the record companies are behind on technology. they embrace their lawyers instead of technology. their record sales have been slow for years because they are not putting out a great product. Censorship is a problem.
Humanity is loosing it big time... - You give a compliment or a smile to a woman on the street = sexual harassment. - You play a cover song in front of a camera = copy right claim. - You fart on the street = copy right claim (in progress) I´m sure the artists (the ones who created the damn music!) are not behind this... So, yeah a strange world these days....
Like I said in the video, RUclips is not the main culprit. The music label corporations, their lobbyists and the lawmakers in the parliaments are the problem. I am from Germany and EU-Article 13 will take effect soon. Here is what RUclips CEO Susan Wojcicki has to say about Article 13 and I can understand why she is giving this answer: "EU tech regulation - RUclips chief says EU copyright plan could lead to blocked access" www.ft.com/content/266e6c2a-e42e-11e8-a8a0-99b2e340ffeb
I need full specs, I bought guitar tuners for my epi junior, too big by mistake. I want to know the size of the tuner' s orifice if it is 9 mm or 10mm. Please help!
While is certainly does suck, that whole movie school analogy is a bad one. I learned guitar before RUclips existed. No copyright claim can stop me from going to a guitar teacher.
Surely most of these claims would fail in court but who has the money to test it? Maybe the answer is a new video platform. Not RUclips. Dark web? Underground guitar lessons?
You had mentioned people streaming video games. If video game publishers could make a copyright claim, that would be like Fender guitars trying to claim copyright on a video of you playing in your band with a Fender guitar. You are the entertainer and the guitar is part of your medium of entertainment. That being said, how can you copyright a single chord? This reminds me of a popular cruise line trying to copyright the word "fun". In the US, we have patent trolls and it seems like they are also branching out into other areas of IP. Also, I know many people that use RUclips to listen to music. If there were no more copyrighted materials allowed on RUclips, that might be another nail in the coffin of the record industry. We live in sad times, friend.
Well, someone could, in theory, start a NEW video platform. 🤷🏽♂️🤝🍻 bye bye youtube? After all, if the content creators leave, youtube has NOTHING. We are everything. RUclips, as a company, produces nothing that they then use to generate money for themselves.
And then the Music Industry Wonders why people quit buying the crap there pushing out So let's go after RUclipsrs and make money off them Jeeeez I should just play every cord on one crap song sue music industry for using my cords!
It's disgusting and all to serve the rich. All music should be for everyone! Two things that help the rich to destroy lives for the poor; Interest on money and copyright law. I want them both gone forever and I hope everyone agrees.
Hey!! My band is called 'Band X', you wanna deal with my lawyers? ;-) j/k Thanks for bringing this up. Trying to hold people in violation of copyright for using a single chord is absurd. Not much doubt the chord was already used by someone else in a recording.
There was an Australian band called Uncanny X Men. They are coming after you ! j/k Their front guy Brian Mannix wouldn't. He's a cool dude. But the label jerkoffs would. FYI their main hit was a song called "everybody wants to work".
Keine Namen genannt, manches rausgeschnitten, keinen einzigen Ton gespielt. Sehr gutes Video. Gut überlegt gemacht, ja nichts falsches machen, sonst könnten wir das vielleicht gar nicht sehen. Ein hervorragendes Video ! Ich grüße Dich und spare mir weitere Worte. Auch ich bin vorsichtig.
John Lennon once said all chord combinations and beats have already been used there is no new music so where does it leave musicians with robots checking your chord progretions and strumming technichs. And as for lobbying the MPs in the UK they are a laughing stock just look at Brexit and how long they have had to sort it. Keep up the good work.
Greedy record companies. This is unfair to pick on music teachers. RUclips is rife with copyright infringement. I don't hear of any other teachers or other group being targeted.
Mike, danke und sehr gute Ansätze ! Die meisten U-Tuber gehen dann eben per VPN ins Ausland zum Upload. Nur wir Europäer sollen reguliert werden... oh jeh.
You Tube is flawed. As soon as you play an open g chord you are already copyrighting hundreds of songs that begin with the same bloody chord ! its insane.
1. UMG is going to be sold to a degree, and that more claims are issued seems like a way to keep the price of sale in boundaries of expectations of projected sale amount. 2. Article 13 - long term implications 3. Any newer content filters implemented.
We should find out these bands and corporations and boycott them into the poorhouse. Its why I stopped making videos 12 years ago. I mean they were just covers and a few started blacking the content in other countries where it could not be seen. This will never stop until we all ban together and hurt them in their pockets. Including You Tube.
Here's a video where a copyright claim was made on a video of a YT-user testing his livestream-microphone............ ruclips.net/video/w4WC9CbFEy8/видео.html
The name of this video says it all! Seems not too many people can post much of anything. I just got three of them a couple of days ago or so for posting some innocent SpongeBob videos. Something to do with Canada or something like that! Ridiculous! I can see a very non-existent RUclips in the future if they continue to let people be bombarded with this nonsense!
So if I copyright a 100 YO Dictionary, you can't write a post without paying me. Nice. Brad the Guitologist has some very good ideas on this issue. He would make a very good spokes man for this problem. Good Luck.
Need to create a RUclips alternative.
New Tube
Vimeo has been around fairly long, and has no censorship.
Post on your own site... and monetize with alternative methods
Need to go back to newgrounds
These laws would affect ANY alternative as much as RUclips. Its in the hands of these corporations who are getting LAWS made to favor their interests. RUclips is pulling videos because if they dont THEY can get sued by BIG MUSIC! It would take a class action lawsuit against one of these BIG MUSIC company about FAIR USE and CENSORSHIP.
Great video, Mike. Subbed! I feel really sorry for our European players. This is going to get worse before it ever gets better.
Thanks for stopping by and your encouragement! And yes, EU-Article 13 will hit even harder and we Europeans will be 'protected' by that Article 13 by not being able to see anything copyrighted in the very first place when the filters are programmed. The more I enjoy for now your videos where you are dissecting abused tube amps and make them breathe again. Nothing better than that. :))
Many valid points my friend... the system is broken.... we can but band together and since we're musicians who can figure things out... we'll figure this out too.... Thank you Mike for your thoughts on this matter !!.. be well sir !
Mike what you say is so true, it will come to a point where we will stop watching RUclips, it is a fact that artists will lose out
if I like the song I will buy the song so that is revenue for the artist
I had a copyright flag on one of my videos of Dogwood Canyon. They said I used some music from Jimmy Hendricks. The only problem is there was no music in the video. I challenged them, and You Tube dropped the flag. That one still has me scratching my head trying to figure how they got that from the video.
Oh well, I won that one, but you're right. The internet was supposed to be the free sharing of ideas and information, but since it became big money, it's being destroyed one user at a time.
You are so right, I have a bunch of content I couldn’t post, and also had to take down a few I shared, but we gonna find away to get the music across..... a guitar chord been copyrighted tho is crazy,.... and even breathing.... sigh 😔
Absolutely
For anyone who doesn't get how serious/stupid this is, if all of this CR BS comes to pass, companies (i.e. Gibson) could file claims simply for their products/logos appearing in a video.
This is crazy, and it almost makes me glad that I went through all of this a few years ago, when all of this crap first started. I had nearly my entire channel deleted (over 100 guitar/music-related vids, except for 3), and lost thousands of subscribers. But, decided to just let it go, because unless you are a part of the top (1%) channels, it's not even worth the fight.
Much love from the US, Mike! Give'em hell! And, I can wait for more of your vids! :)
Copy-write law allows "fair use" which includes educating, reviewing and criticising. Does Google not know that? Too much corporate greed. Is anyone up for starting a crowd funding campaign to launch a community owned video repository?
undercrackers56 - You don’t understand that Fair Use disputes have to be decided by a judge in a courtroom. You can claim fair use but you cannot by truly sure about it since every instance must be evaluated by itself. Although Diminis (brevity of portion of work) is generally helpful it has to be graded with the overall context. Many people use the entire work and try to pass that off as educational. Keeping it down to a few seconds can help but is no guarantee. It generally needs to be transformative. That’s vague and again a judge can only ultimately decide that.
@@ipsurvivor - ah yes grasshopper - and they know almost no one can take it to court so they will continue to push their fat a** weight around.
78tag - If someone sued them they would probably be countersued just like someone being sued by them might have to counter sue them.
If I am not mistaken they recently expanded the amount of time for songs to be in the Public Domain, in both the UK and the US. I think when “Love Me Do” by The Beatles entered the Public Domain in the UK around 1963 the powers that be changed it to 70 years from release date as opposed to the 50 years previously stipulated. It’s not retroactive so it would seem the Beatle’s stuff would mostly be in the PD but I’m not sure about that.
In my opinion this is only going to make the situation worse.
People live longer now and so do their immediate heirs but mostly corporations and their big wigs who are quite removed will benefit the most.
In the US all recordings from 1957 to February 15, 1972 will fall into the public domain on February 15, 2067. To me that leaves a huge chunk of time for the music to be exploited by those who are born long after its creation.
This is all so much bullshit from RUclips and legal vampires. Playing someone's song only advertises it for the artist. It's like wearing a Pepsi t-shirt to advertise Pepsi and then being sued by Pepsi for copyright infringement!!!!! Down this road, companies will start to look at the backgrounds of videos and say 'Oh, there's our washing machine in the background of this video' we will sue this person..... even if the content is NOTHING to do with the machine or indeed anything in the background! This will not only affect RUclips but all internet sites!
Sounds like MySpace could be making a come back...
It really seems like the world has gone batshit crazy!
Yes, we are near the end of the Bible.
@@TeleCaster66 I agree, the writing has been on the wall for awhile. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
The world has always been this way....it just gets around faster now. It started the day humans, or whatever they were, started communicating with each other. Humans are just another virus spreading around the planet until they also goes extinct.
That's ridiculous. The only claims I make, are when they copy my entire video and then just upload it as their own, or take my whole video and put their intro on it and call it their own. If they use 5 seconds of my content in their 20 minute video, it's not an issue. It's getting ridiculous out there.
This is going to kill youtube as a form of learning not only the guitar but everything.. this shit is crazy..itl be the end of youtube..
The system is broken.
Very!
and RUclips won't side video creators, but big corporations... I fought back EMI... I appealed 2 times and then sent a counternotification... RUclips sent me this message: "We believe you're not using our counternotification system properly" and they took my video down for using only 10 seconds of a song
All Blues musicians will have to sue each other..and themselves....no more 1 4 5 compositions folks
Web is a great inspiration. Cooperate greed will put it to a end. Get back to your factory job.
Points well made Mike. I have respect for your views and many of the people you mentioned now the internet is a corrupted fishing net. How uncomplicated our world was when loving and learning songs was a respectful admiration and means of improving our craft, especially if the song had no available sheet music. Guitarists would share this knowledge before the internet- whether sitting with another guitarist or learning by ear with repetition of a section of a record, cassette, CD etc. I understand the copyright concern where an artist loses their entitlement but copyright of a chord shows how sad, crazy and greedy things have become. Don't be thwarted and I hope you continue with others to keep up your great work as it is very appreciated. Simon in Melbourne.
Since youtube becames a business, just deserves to disappear. And will be more sooner than later.
Sometimes I think humanity will just choke on its own bullshit.
This is part of the very last death throws of a society that is about to implode. It has happened many times in past history that the weight of regulation, control and taxes on the people becomes so great that it is no longer accepted. The consequences will be horrendous.
People need to tweet to artists who the claimers are claiming on their behalf, Im sure most of them have no idea what's going on.
I heard a couple of days ago that there’s already an alternative to RUclips. I hope it gets viral soon and everyone starts migrating to it. This platform is no longer free from hands of greedy corporations.
Google/RUclips isn’t the government. I am not lawyer, but I believe that Copyright law lets you use brief excerpts, use copyrighted materials for education, or to criticize copyrighted works. If big music publishers are impacting your income by making false legal claims, then that seems like an actual damage that civil suits are designed to remedy. I’d seriously consider consulting a real lawyer and filing a real lawsuit to collect actual and punitive damages. Juries rarely tolerate big companies bullying ordinary people, so you may actually win such a case in a real courtroom. I’m sure there are lawyers who would love to file a class-action suit on your behalf if there is a demonstrable pattern of abuse.
The music corps know they are dealing with individuals that can't afford to resist them. That is why RUclips should be handling this but don't because they are in with them for the $'s. They will keep doing it until it costs more to do it than not.....then they will find some other scam (the corps and YT).
@@78tag RUclips doesn't make any money from copyright claims, you dolt. That's so far beyond illegal it's just ridiculous. C'mon, use your head..
Is there a copyright about even mentioning a name of anything in public in conversation with anybody. Oh dear, I talked about a favourite film, a favourite song, when do I get a copyright violation through the post?
There are bots that search out any mention of either bands names and, or songs w/copywrites.
Phil Gyles welcome to the 21st century. Where you are not allowed to say anything without offending someone or violating someone's "copyright" material. Shades of "Orwell's 1984"
This is the best summary of the far reaching aspects of the RUclips copyright claims situation that has recently come to be. RUclips is not responsible for this. I believe strongly that the great changes the Internet have brought now require the definition of use of copyrighted material to be reviewed and revised. This is about legal decisions from generations before the Internet existed and music companies earning more from artists that create great music than is ethically justifiable. This legal situation is out of control and must be corrected through politics affecting changes to make this rational.
I'm not afraid to say the name: VOLDEMORT.
I thought copyrights didn't matter in an educational setting... Weird how RUclips thinks otherwise...
Finally, the time is right for me to launch my AIR GUITAR ACADEMY!
I just slapped with a copyright of an arrangement of a song I did for a dubstep cover of it. It was nowhere close to being like the dubstep cover!
I got hit over a dimished chord.
I think that I will stop buying music and just make my own.
Time to start a new platform. RUclips needs to die.
If you leave a cannibal with no enemies to devour, they eventually feast on their own.
This is insane, simply insane.
This type of thing comes and goes. It will eventually go away, trust me. The sad bit is that channel owners are getting punished, just like they did the last time that this bullshit happened. Again, it will eventually go away. It's just going to take a little time. RUclips/Google will put an end to it. Watch.
We;ve seen this before ....it goes away eventually , just like all media horseshit does (y)
MY OPINION goes like this: I produce youtube-videos by myself - just for fun - but I always try to do my own thing, my own style, my own creation. OF COURSE, I'm inspired by 50 years of listening good music - BUT it is always me, I'm not a copy of anybody and also my songs are not copies! ... BRINGING IT TO THE POINT: When I put my video to youtube - it is my personal descision to do it or not. AND when I give my video to the hole community for free - it is also my personal descision. IF I WOULD NOT LIKE, that anybody could use my video/my ideas/my songs - I should not bring it to youtube for free usage - I should keep it like a secret in my rooms! ... WE SHARE SAME THING / SAME LOVE / SAME ART / MUSIC as a free gift from heaven! ... SO SHIT on all that copyright-ideas and strong reglementations - the power behind is only: GETTING MONEY !! GETTING RICH !! ... enough is not enough ... and this is DEATH to every kind of beautiful soulful art !! ... STOP !!
It's more than likley they want to shut off excess to information. And close out the freedom oft speech.
Totally agree, that is where it is headed. Their basically setting a precedent to block people on a whim. Now its frivolous copyright claims, next it will be parody and criticism.
Hi Mike! 100% agree! It's not normally. Unfortunately digital world is totally controlled by few biggest corporations now. And their purposes is not care of good law-adding guys but their lucre only.
Very worried future for RUclips. Very sad.
I saw this coming right from the beginning. This is why I didn't bother producing content and becoming dependent on RUclips to keep bread on my table.
Here's a true story from personal experience. I was the
guitar player in the up and coming L.A. band Lip Service from the fall of1979
to summer of 1982. We played all of the traditional L.A. clubs, the high
schools, skate rinks etc.
We were finally starting to get booked prime-time at Starwood, Gazzarri's, Troubadour, and the Whiskey. We were "on our way" as it were. Name producers we're courting us. Robin Williams used to come and hang out when we played Madam Wong's Chinatown and Bob Dylan introduced himself to me in front of Gazzarri's after we played there one night. Bob Dylan!
We were offered a massive record deal (another story for
another time) when the rug was pulled out from under the whole shebang when the
guys who started the Lip Service novelty clothing store registered the name Lip
Service even though we had been working under that original name for the past 3
years.
But, because our inept manager (who's dead now) didn't
register the Lip Service trademark we were served with an injunction
prohibiting the use of the Lip Service name. By the way… One of the items the
Lip Service store offered was hot pink Converse Chuck Taylor high tops which I
originated. (I got fucked on that too!)
Although I can empathize with copyright holders on this
topic to a huge degree, and fair use does allow for commercially posted
content, the copyright is still the creation of the copyright holder and they
should be compensated accordingly.
iF YOU COPYRIGHT chords then Songwriting has come to an End ...for EVER there will never be a NEW song
The guy at Legal Eagles youtube channel is a Lawyer who is requesting the victims of the youtube copyright claims to contact him !!!!!!
Real censorship for political reasons aside (which can hold this madness for much longer and is an important reason to unleash these policies), just let them do that. After the wasteland where the copyright holders, RUclips and their advertisers will see that they have all been forgotten, nobody cares for their stuff and none of them is making money because content is gone and the one they produce is not talked about, shown, listened to and cared for, i.e. when their bottom line is going down and they hear crickets around them, they'll quickly pedal back and beg for someone to post 3 seconds of their precious intellectual properties.
Use your own content and drive down their revenue and their exposure. Creators will still be able to make some profit, even if it's going to be hard but once the huge "word of mouth" disappears from the web money goes down for the big guns too. YT is not profitable already, once they will have to spend even more money for all the Art. 13 shenanigans measures and see important creators dropping down in their metrics, maybe leaving, viewership getting sluggins, people moving to alternative platforms, advertisers leaving with them they'll just raise their voice with their buddies (don't think for a second big tech, media corportations and governments are not part of the same big family) and we'll see what we've seen with newspapers fighting Google News and then coming back crying and whining for their new to be embeded again...
They need our data, they know very well very few will subscribe to premium services, especially if the content offering is not that good and the price point is high, and - be it for business or for social control - they need our eyeballs ON the screen, not OFF it so... don't sweat it too much ;)
I used to have a video channel doing reactions for unsigned talent.
Before I put a video up, I ALWAYS contacted the band and asked permission to do a reaction and asked what song they wanted me to do. I had e-mails and messages from the bands on file with permission....
fucking CD BABY.... the online retail fuckmode filed a copyright infringement on EVERY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO. They have no copyright on the music. They own not a fucking note of any music, and they claimed a copyright violation.
I challenged the claim, and offered proof that I had permission from the actual people who owned the music, and RUclips told me that I had violated the copyright and shut down my channel.
RUclips is a corporation and behaving like every other corp out there. Time for it to die off
This is what happens when lawyers/attorneys and corporations get involved in things they have no idea about. The world gone mad! Algorithms are one more step towards the computer governing of the masses. We already have computer 'courts' for small fines and violations. Only a matter of time folks.
The internet is one giant advertising platform
Background music is fire...love the solo
"No Mr. Bond; I expect you to die." Sorry, couldn't help myself. :-)
Thanks Mike for making this video. Blockers are everywhere today on RUclips. I wrote below my observation on why.
Corporate greed run amok !
Playing the music keeps it alive and opens it up to people who will potentially search out and buy it. Ive personally discovered a fair amountvof new music (new for me) through people playing on RUclips. It reminds me of Gail Zappa threatening lawsuits against anyone who would dare play her late husband's compositions live without her consent (including her own son).
This would be the perfect time for someone to create an alternative to RUclips, if it was solid enough everyone (myself included) would migrate to it and never open youtube again.
Just chill out and play guitar Mike, looking forwards to another of you're awesome vids (agreed 100%)
This is Lawfare, using the Legal System as a form of Warfare.
The end of you tube!
Here's a suggestion to deter nefarious copyright claims. Governments should mandate that You tube should introduce a fee on a sliding scale to levy against every claimant which will only be returned if after investigation the claim is upheld and also a suspension against the claimant if the claim is deemed nefarious.
(The same model as landlords that now have to lodge their tenant's deposits and if a claim arises it is arbitrated by an independent ombudsman who's decision is binding.)
At the moment It's blunt instrument and a huge swordfish dragnet to catch a few single minnows. It has to start by stopping politicians being lobbied by big corporations wanting to steer legislation in their favour. Here's the mechanism.
Change.org BTW
There's a punch up going on as we speak on both sides of the argument on this website with the copyright "owners" v the copyright "infringers".
It will be a dirty fight.
Look at the people who are in charge these days! Look at MMA. Trans-men perform in women's leagues! WTF is going on? Good video! These days people are in the lead who have very big issues. They had a childhood with digital/virtual experiences. We are done!
It's insane - copy-writing a chord is like copy-writing a word or common phrase like: "Hello, how's it going?" It's out of control. Only way to change it is to stop using RUclips...
In Art Of The Film Classes at Universities they have to pay for a license to show movies. Like if you show a movie at a school event you need to rent the reel or pay a licensing agency. That’s not an effective argument.
Glad to see there's at least _one_ person in here with some damn sense in their head, sheesh..
Everybody should sue YT.
I got copyright strikes for using Public Domain music!
I bet we're going to start getting copyright strikes [next] for talking. Talking!!!
is getting ridiculous , so now if you play ,, D G A you may face a copyright clame ,, is because nobody is buying cd any more lable company try to make money in shady ways, and this why you start to see big artist from 80is or 70is play live , in a country they never visit before,
On a more positive note, that's a beautiful Les Paul your holding...oh no did I say Les Paul...I meant guitar:)
These claims brought down a brilliant channel with nothing but vintage declassified military and other educational type programs, even old advertising and sales-rep educational films. It moved to Vimeo, but I forget to go there.
At 13:45, you mention the exact reason i believe. the record companies are behind on technology. they embrace their lawyers instead of technology. their record sales have been slow for years because they are not putting out a great product. Censorship is a problem.
You are absolutely right - censorship is a huge problem. Who gets to determine what gets censored? We all know we can't allow the gov't to do it!
Good points. Looks like we need to figure this out or grow more fingers and make new cords. Thanks for sharing.
Humanity is loosing it big time...
- You give a compliment or a smile to a woman on the street = sexual harassment.
- You play a cover song in front of a camera = copy right claim.
- You fart on the street = copy right claim (in progress)
I´m sure the artists (the ones who created the damn music!) are not behind this...
So, yeah a strange world these days....
Copyright is called greed!!!
You guys find an alternative to RUclips and we will move with you in a heartbeat. F@@k RUclips. Who bloody owns Dsus anyway. This is too much.
Like I said in the video, RUclips is not the main culprit. The music label corporations, their lobbyists and the lawmakers in the parliaments are the problem. I am from Germany and EU-Article 13 will take effect soon. Here is what RUclips CEO Susan Wojcicki has to say about Article 13 and I can understand why she is giving this answer: "EU tech regulation - RUclips chief says EU copyright plan could lead to blocked access" www.ft.com/content/266e6c2a-e42e-11e8-a8a0-99b2e340ffeb
I need full specs, I bought guitar tuners for my epi junior, too big by mistake. I want to know the size of the tuner' s orifice if it is 9 mm or 10mm. Please help!
Measure them yourself ffs.
While is certainly does suck, that whole movie school analogy is a bad one. I learned guitar before RUclips existed. No copyright claim can stop me from going to a guitar teacher.
Surely most of these claims would fail in court but who has the money to test it? Maybe the answer is a new video platform. Not RUclips. Dark web? Underground guitar lessons?
You had mentioned people streaming video games. If video game publishers could make a copyright claim, that would be like Fender guitars trying to claim copyright on a video of you playing in your band with a Fender guitar. You are the entertainer and the guitar is part of your medium of entertainment. That being said, how can you copyright a single chord? This reminds me of a popular cruise line trying to copyright the word "fun". In the US, we have patent trolls and it seems like they are also branching out into other areas of IP.
Also, I know many people that use RUclips to listen to music. If there were no more copyrighted materials allowed on RUclips, that might be another nail in the coffin of the record industry.
We live in sad times, friend.
Well, someone could, in theory, start a NEW video platform. 🤷🏽♂️🤝🍻 bye bye youtube? After all, if the content creators leave, youtube has NOTHING. We are everything. RUclips, as a company, produces nothing that they then use to generate money for themselves.
The bands that "shall not be mentioned" will become so much dust in the long years of the future. And many great songs will be lost forever...
Nice Les Paul!
You have taste. :)) This is a 1995 LP Standard Honeyburst, Nashville production.
very nice!
*turns sarcasm knob to 11*
You can't say "Les Paul." That's a trademark infringement.
@@Boethius4748 Gibson need all the help they can get, weren't they going broke not too long ago?
They should love any endorsment they can get. :
And then the Music Industry
Wonders why people quit buying the crap there pushing out
So let's go after RUclipsrs and make money off them
Jeeeez I should just play every cord on one crap song sue music industry for using my cords!
If I were RUclips, my only answer to the new law would be to stop allowing anyone in the European Union to use the service.
It's just the start of what's coming. Also I enjoy all your videos & always learn something or I'm inspired by your guitar playing,
It's disgusting and all to serve the rich. All music should be for everyone! Two things that help the rich to destroy lives for the poor; Interest on money and copyright law. I want them both gone forever and I hope everyone agrees.
Hey!! My band is called 'Band X', you wanna deal with my lawyers? ;-) j/k
Thanks for bringing this up. Trying to hold people in violation of copyright for using a single chord is absurd. Not much doubt the chord was already used by someone else in a recording.
There was an Australian band called Uncanny X Men. They are coming after you ! j/k
Their front guy Brian Mannix wouldn't. He's a cool dude. But the label jerkoffs would.
FYI their main hit was a song called "everybody wants to work".
I was here before your video was blocked by Michael Jackson because you said: "grey zone"!
The Day the Music dies may well be due to invasive copywright claims against use of chords, notes, arpeggios (no matter how poorly played; lol).
Keine Namen genannt, manches rausgeschnitten, keinen einzigen Ton gespielt.
Sehr gutes Video. Gut überlegt gemacht, ja nichts falsches machen, sonst könnten wir das vielleicht gar nicht sehen.
Ein hervorragendes Video !
Ich grüße Dich und spare mir weitere Worte. Auch ich bin vorsichtig.
Bang on the money. I will also make a video on this. Well done sir!
John Lennon once said all chord combinations and beats have already been used there is no new music so where does it leave musicians with robots checking your chord progretions and strumming technichs. And as for lobbying the MPs in the UK they are a laughing stock just look at Brexit and how long they have had to sort it. Keep up the good work.
Greedy record companies. This is unfair to pick on music teachers. RUclips is rife with copyright infringement. I don't hear of any other teachers or other group being targeted.
WTF ???!!!!! Insane !
Mike, danke und sehr gute Ansätze ! Die meisten U-Tuber gehen dann eben per VPN ins Ausland zum Upload. Nur wir Europäer sollen reguliert werden... oh jeh.
I am just starting to play electric guitar so this situation is not good even for me as a student using youtube lessons....
You Tube is flawed. As soon as you play an open g chord you are already copyrighting hundreds of songs that begin with the same bloody chord ! its insane.
Oh! I just mentioned you in a comment!! Is that a copyright? Please don't sue me! 😂
1. UMG is going to be sold to a degree, and that more claims are issued seems like a way to keep the price of sale in boundaries of expectations of projected sale amount.
2. Article 13 - long term implications
3. Any newer content filters implemented.
We should find out these bands and corporations and boycott them into the poorhouse. Its why I stopped making videos 12 years ago. I mean they were just covers and a few started blacking the content in other countries where it could not be seen. This will never stop until we all ban together and hurt them in their pockets. Including You Tube.
Tho shall never question the all mighty corporation
Hi Mike. I'd like to speak to you about a personal matter. How can I contact you? Many thanks.
Try mikeburn@mikeburn.com :)
This kind of thing will probably land RUclips in court and they will lose and it will cost them millions.
Here's a video where a copyright claim was made on a video of a YT-user testing his livestream-microphone............ ruclips.net/video/w4WC9CbFEy8/видео.html
The name of this video says it all! Seems not too many people can post much of anything. I just got three of them a couple of days ago or so for posting some innocent SpongeBob videos. Something to do with Canada or something like that! Ridiculous! I can see a very non-existent RUclips in the future if they continue to let people be bombarded with this nonsense!
So if I copyright a 100 YO Dictionary, you can't write a post without paying me. Nice. Brad the Guitologist has some very good ideas on this issue. He would make a very good spokes man for this problem. Good Luck.
So the artists will get no exposure.