So, step one in testing out my rights (?), if I actually have any - trying to get rid of the content match that Routenote has slapped on my cover song/video. I disputed the content match via the "dispute" button (curiously enough) on the "Copyright Notices" page of one of my YouTube channels (CrummyMusician, https://www.youtube.com/user/CrummyMusician). This eventually took me to a form, where I had to tick a bunch of boxes, and so on. It also insisted that I cite the copyright law that these guys were violating. Since I have no clue, I wrote "I don't know," and it let me proceed anyway. Here's what I wrote to them, on April 8:
country: (my country)
fulllegalname: (my name)
yourusername: http://www.youtube.com/user/ CrummyMusician
email_prefill_req: (my e-mail address)
otherurls: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8CwoRxV6WwI
otheruser: OfficialPlayMeMusic
specific_law: I don't know
specific_law_text:
violating_law: On September 3, 2011, I posted the following cover of She
Sells Sanctuary by the Cult: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=O8ZjJzB33ZQ
Subsequent to that, I received permission from YouTube and the music rights
organization through YouTube to monetize the cover, and did. This week, I
received a copyright claim from Routenote on the video. I investigated and
discovered that YouTube user OfficialPlayMeMusic had used the cover and
represented it as their own on YouTube (August, 2013, nearly two years
after my performance), ReverbNation, Itunes, Amazon, etc, etc.
I am not sure what specific law, if any, this breaks, but it is certainly
the use of my performance without my permission, and I would be grateful if
you could take it down, reinstate my monetization, and take whatever other
steps you deem necessary against this user.
Thank you very much.
I rather expected to wait a million years for anything to happen, if it ever did, but to my pleasant surprise, YouTube got back to me only three days later:
Hi CrummyMusician,
Good news! Your dispute wasn’t reviewed within 30 days, so the copyright claim on your YouTube video has now been released by routenote.
Video title: "The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary full instrumental cover"Your video's monetization settings have now been restored. View monetization settings.
- The YouTube Team
So this is a good result. My video is back in my control, and monetized by me again as it was before this Routenote business began. Something funny though - the stock message says it wasn't reviewed within 30 days. Clearly it WAS, since I got the reply in three days. My guess is someone at Routenote had a listen and though "oh crap, the guy has a point!" Or maybe someone at YouTube found it similarly obvious that my cover had been ripped off. Score one for the good guys, right?
Sort of. The rip off cover is still up on YouTube. And just for fun, I uploaded my original video again to another one of my channels and.....it got slapped with a copyright notice by Routenote immediately. So there is more work to be done, obviously. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that this is a cover performance of a song I have limited, if any, rights to, means that I have no legal protection at all here?
country: (my country)
fulllegalname: (my name)
yourusername: http://www.youtube.com/user/ CrummyMusician
email_prefill_req: (my e-mail address)
otherurls: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8CwoRxV6WwI
otheruser: OfficialPlayMeMusic
specific_law: I don't know
specific_law_text:
violating_law: On September 3, 2011, I posted the following cover of She
Sells Sanctuary by the Cult: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=O8ZjJzB33ZQ
Subsequent to that, I received permission from YouTube and the music rights
organization through YouTube to monetize the cover, and did. This week, I
received a copyright claim from Routenote on the video. I investigated and
discovered that YouTube user OfficialPlayMeMusic had used the cover and
represented it as their own on YouTube (August, 2013, nearly two years
after my performance), ReverbNation, Itunes, Amazon, etc, etc.
I am not sure what specific law, if any, this breaks, but it is certainly
the use of my performance without my permission, and I would be grateful if
you could take it down, reinstate my monetization, and take whatever other
steps you deem necessary against this user.
Thank you very much.
I rather expected to wait a million years for anything to happen, if it ever did, but to my pleasant surprise, YouTube got back to me only three days later:
Hi CrummyMusician,
Good news! Your dispute wasn’t reviewed within 30 days, so the copyright claim on your YouTube video has now been released by routenote.
Video title: "The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary full instrumental cover"Your video's monetization settings have now been restored. View monetization settings.
- The YouTube Team
So this is a good result. My video is back in my control, and monetized by me again as it was before this Routenote business began. Something funny though - the stock message says it wasn't reviewed within 30 days. Clearly it WAS, since I got the reply in three days. My guess is someone at Routenote had a listen and though "oh crap, the guy has a point!" Or maybe someone at YouTube found it similarly obvious that my cover had been ripped off. Score one for the good guys, right?
Sort of. The rip off cover is still up on YouTube. And just for fun, I uploaded my original video again to another one of my channels and.....it got slapped with a copyright notice by Routenote immediately. So there is more work to be done, obviously. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that this is a cover performance of a song I have limited, if any, rights to, means that I have no legal protection at all here?
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