Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Copyright disputes

A while ago I uploaded this little video to my youtube channel.


It's nothing spectacular and it was just some video I had kicking about and it isn't that bad to just delete it. Anyway, I tried to spice it up a bit with some music. Vivaldi - Four Seasons Spring seemed to be a great fit for this video. So I found a copy of this track (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:01_-_Vivaldi_Spring_mvt_1_Allegro_-_John_Harrison_violin.ogg), licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic (License available here http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/deed.en) and finished my video, uploaded it and all was good. I monitized it and that was that. I doubt it ever made a penny from the monitization but I'll never know as that was before the youtube revamp to list Ad Revenue per video. That isn't important anyway.

Some time later it was flagged as "Matched third party content" and the claim was made by CD Baby. At the time I just set the video to private and decided to deal with it later. Later came, about a week and a half ago when I filed my dispute with this claim. I cited the source and license of the music and the claim was released. I tried to enable monitization again on the video and CD Baby claimed ownership, again. So I disputed it again and it was released again. I tried to enable monitization again and this time an anonymous "Rights collecting society" claimed ownership. So once again I disputed the claim and it was released. Once I tried to enable monitization again it was then claimed by APM Music and again I disputed the claim. Turned monitization on again and had another claim for ownership of the music filed. This time by the Harry Fox Agency.



So here I am, 5 disputes into this one video and every time I dispute it another claim is filed.

It does leave me with some questions:

a) Why are claims submitted one by one by different companies?
b) My dispute has been accepted once and nothing has changed in my video - why do I need to submit it again and again for each company?
c) Why is the company involved the only one reviewing these claims?

Friday, 14 October 2011

Dialogue recording problems!

So this is my first blog post here! Woohoo! I had wanted the page http://cerebraldump.blogspot.com but that is already taken. Bah. So this one will do for now.

I was trying to record some dialogue last night and everything seemed to be going well. I made a few mistakes here and there and had to repeat my lines, no big deal though. I just removed the mistakes with audacity and thought it was all good. That was until I ran it through the normalise effect and noise removal. As it turns out, my mic had picked up the dup-dup-dup from the washing machine of the neighbour above me. D'oh. I've not been able to remove the noise with any of the effects in Audacity, so I've just had to live with it. After I played it back, through the speakers and with headphones in work this morning, I was not able to hear it. So all good then? Mostly, I'm still trying to find out how to remove that type of background noise with Audacity. Maybe one day I will find out - does anyone know how to?

Anyway, in case you've not been following my youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/cerebraldump) I bought a new mic specifically to record audio for my animations. Check out this video to see the quality difference.




I also have a twitter account @ http://www.twitter.com/cerebraldump - I post my favourites and uploaded videos there. Check it out or follow if you like what you see!