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Some of you may remember my thread about a troll who stalked one of my videos on Facebook for a while. This was on my video of a guitar solo I wrote over Boys of Summer by Don Henley - it got tens of thousands of views and supposedly reached hundreds of thousands of people. To clarify - this was on Facebook, on my guitar page that I operate in more of a professional capacity than my personal page, which is full of shite like my posts on here It's not on YouTube or anywhere else.
I was notified earlier that Universal Music Group have made a copyright claim over it, and it's been removed from Facebook. They said I can "contact the claimant directly and follow it up" but then didn't provide me with an email address to contact. So unless I'm very much mistaken, I'm pretty much up Shit Creek, aren't I?
I believe my video was fair use - the point of it was to demonstrate a guitar solo that I wrote myself over an existing song, that original content being the focus of it. It is my interpretation of the song, so I think I have the right to use and share it as my own work. Can anyone clarify?
Does anyone have any advice for me? As well as anything else, I just want the video back because, stupidly, I don't have it backed up anywhere else except my old computer at home, which I haven't switched on for about five months and may not even work any more. And it's an absolute fucking bummer to lose the view count. I believe it was on about 80k last time I checked.
Really hope someone can help.
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Does "Fair use" apply in the UK, or is it a US thing that everyone assumes exists here (like the 5th amendment)?
Secondly I've heard there is "Fair dealing" here but that's a different thing and not necessarily equivalent.
Read this first:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright
Are you sure you're not breaching copyright? For example if you included most of the original song, that might be a breach - at a guess. Also they've put the ball in your court - it's disputed so you'll have to pay a lawyer and prove you're using the material fairly.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but that's how I had it explained to me.
I've had a dnumber of emails recently from YouTube warning me about some covers or interpretations I've done
one of their periodic line in sand, day of long knives moments.
i use a thing called ytd downloader to download & convert to mp3 live performances of bands i like.
very often guitar solos get buried in the mix in studio stuff but live you can pick it out. i've got all the cds anyway.
& suddenly today ytd downloader doesn't work with youtube anymore.
it's like schrodingers downloader.
they say live/demo/unreleased stuff can't be distrubuted because 'it affects sales'.
then when you ask them when they are going to release it they say never 'because it's not commercially viable'.
fuckers. hopefully vimeo & daily motion put them out of business.
Got half a million views now! I probably only had 100 views when I disputed it! They may pay more attention to a video that already has quite a few views.
This video was not previously monetized by me, but it is now, but the ad revenue will go to someone else
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As to covers or guitar lessons - use backing tracks of the songs rather than the original and save yourself the hassle.
Of course, the actual law doesn't stop people having videos of their cute kid doing something silly taken down because a Spice Girls song is on the TV behind them.