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Jemmz · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: YouTube-Who's claimed what now?

I need some advice as I have know idea what to do about this

Someone has "claimed" the audio on one of my REALLY old videos. Here's the message I got:

Uruviel · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

Jemma,

I've gotten a few of those myself, and other than having an ad placed on my vid's page, nothing's changed and I haven't had to do anything. I think it's their way of saying "we see you used our music, but we're letting you leave your video up". Which is pretty cool, cause some bands who shall remain nameless

make you take vids down if you used their music.

So basically, you don't have to do anything as far as I know!

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Heather

Jemmz · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:46 am Post subject:

Oh good! I thought that might be the case but just wanted to make sure. Thanks Heather!

Charmed_Charlee · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

Yeah I've had this on a couple of my old videos with Rent music, you can leave your video up which is cool

KajaM · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:27 am Post subject:

The only bummer is that they put annoying ads onto that vid's page, but I can live with that as long as they don't shut down my account *fingers crossed*
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littleton_pace · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject:

yeah; that happened to an old conmama one of mine, better than me, but it was about five months ago and the vid is still there. yeah; to me its just like heather said 'we're claiming that the music in your vid is ours; but you can keep your vid up"

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Jemmz · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it annoys me that they can just go ahead and do that but I suppose it's fair enough. I'm glad it was an old one though =]

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

You know, honestly? I wouldn't care if they put ad banners up so that they get a few pennies every time the vid gets a hit (which is all they're really caring about anyway, lol!

) if that would protect vidders from legal actions from copyright violations!

That certainly freaks you out when you get a message like that, doesn't it?

But, like everybody else said, that's just basically saying that UMG is allowing you to use the song but they want a banner ad up so that they'll make a bit of revenue from it.

Jemmz · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject:

lol, yes it did freak me out for a bit! But ITA, if it saves me from being sued or something!

At least I know for if it happens again now.

Hobbes · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

Woah, since when has Youtube been doing this..?

I like it!

Now, instead of deleting every single video on the site, they can actually inspire cooperation between jerk copyright holders and the rest of the world!

Fan4Lost · Advanced Vidder Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 2224

Yep, consider yourself lucky Jemma, you got UMG and they are cooperating with allowing people to use their label music without paying for it. A huge label like that at least is being smart and taking a friendly approach to stuff like that.