Sunday, February 15, 2009
YouTube and Copyright
YouTube, much to my chagrin, has been going around ripping the audio off of videos lately. I find this a hideous act! It was one thing when they were just taking the videos off completely (if there was a song on there that shouldn't have been) but that was at least a "Oh well I knew I was taking a risk" action. (Still, I think, hideous though.) But worse, IMHO, is ripping off the audio. Because they're not just turning off the music (not that they could) but they're taking off ALLL of the audio. So there's a perfectly good video with people and talking and sound effects and etc... but you can hear NONE OF IT. What is even the friggin' point?
I love to watch fan music videos that people make and think this just rips the heart out of so many people's love and devotion to their favorite movies and shows when this crap happens.
There is a shining light in the form of some musical artists though! The first is that some artists have their songs available on YouTube itself so that you can add their track to your video. Evanescence, for example, is one of these artists. This is cool but it's not like they give you the song and you can edit to it... you can just choose to add it on. Then we have Imogen Heap (whom I love). She's just posted on her lasted VLOG that she is absolutely not responsible for taking down vids that feature her music (99% of which are likely the parodies of the "Dear Sister" SNL parody of the OC) and has her people in the process of correcting this with YouTube. She goes on further to say that if you email her and ask for permission to use her song (to preempt YouTube) she'll grant that permission. Yet another reason to love Imogen! So, if you can, make all your fan videos with Imogen's music from here on out. Then e-mail her at YouTube@imogenheap.com to get your permission to use it.
(She starts talking about the issue at 05:53)
I love to watch fan music videos that people make and think this just rips the heart out of so many people's love and devotion to their favorite movies and shows when this crap happens.
There is a shining light in the form of some musical artists though! The first is that some artists have their songs available on YouTube itself so that you can add their track to your video. Evanescence, for example, is one of these artists. This is cool but it's not like they give you the song and you can edit to it... you can just choose to add it on. Then we have Imogen Heap (whom I love). She's just posted on her lasted VLOG that she is absolutely not responsible for taking down vids that feature her music (99% of which are likely the parodies of the "Dear Sister" SNL parody of the OC) and has her people in the process of correcting this with YouTube. She goes on further to say that if you email her and ask for permission to use her song (to preempt YouTube) she'll grant that permission. Yet another reason to love Imogen! So, if you can, make all your fan videos with Imogen's music from here on out. Then e-mail her at YouTube@imogenheap.com to get your permission to use it.
(She starts talking about the issue at 05:53)
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That really sucks. I have several videos that will get ruined by this change. Guess I better start checking out vimeo.
I agree with you that the fan stuff is under attack and that is sad, if you are not making money off the video, then no harm no foul.
But I do understand the policy and I think people need to become more aware of the fact that just because you like someone's creative work does not give you the right to use it.
It's cool when artist's allow that stuff though!!!
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But I do understand the policy and I think people need to become more aware of the fact that just because you like someone's creative work does not give you the right to use it.
It's cool when artist's allow that stuff though!!!
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