I received an email from YouTube a few days ago informing me that they have flagged one of my videos as containing copyrighted material. Here’s the start of it:
Your video “Shakedown My Heart” has been identified by YouTube’s Content Identification program as containing copyrighted content which Sony/BMG claims is theirs.
Your video “Shakedown My Heart” is still available because Sony/BMG does not object to this content appearing on YouTube at this time. As long as Sony/BMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video’s page.
Interestingly enough, it is the visual content that they are laying claim to. I’m actually really surprised they are able to detect something like this automatically — especially since this is a highly edited mashup video! Maybe they do character recognition to discover song titles, artists, etc. that might appear in introductory credits of music videos.
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Everyone can see the number of view on youtube anyway!
Or, you know, it might notice that you tagged it as ‘house’ and ’80s’ and mentioned Taylor Dayne and Shakedown in the description.
No they go on keyword matching alone.
I know cos I uploaded vids that got the same notice, stopped mentioning the tunes I’ve used and voila no notices.
“Taylor Dayne vs. Shakedown” - you mentioned it in the info?
You’re totally right, Tim.
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