The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions
James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn't stay up -- Youtube's Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds' worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.
This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos -- for audio, text, stills, code, everything.
Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok, Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.
Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.
Stop what you're doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet -- before it's too late.
kerubi on September 6th, 2018 at 08:22 UTC »
False copyright claims need to be heavily penalized. Losing money is only language corporations understand.
_m_0_n_0_ on September 6th, 2018 at 07:19 UTC »
Soviet national anthem:
Sony Music owns the Soviet anthem.
UnlawfulAwfulFalafel on September 6th, 2018 at 06:07 UTC »
Looks like YouTube’s automated content ID system flagged a pianist’s personal performance. I guess it must have been close to a particular recording Sony owns the rights to.
The article goes on to say that the European Parliment will be voting soon on whether to require similar copyright protective content ID systems for broader categories of media like pictures, sound, and code.