I put up a Naval Action video (Review coming up soon BTW) a few days before its Steam release. It wasn’t anything really special. I uploaded it from a Twitch.tv stream I had done earlier, so the quality was a bit.. off. I know I had a few copyrighted songs in the video, and I expected it to be flagged. It was flagged and those who worked on the music deserve their money for their creations. However, a month after posting it, it was entirely muted due to 2 minutes of the 1812 Overture. I tried to edit out the flagged portions and wound up muting the entire video permanently. (Oddly enough that video is still getting views..)
Now, I noticed a few weird things when I was playing Fallout 4 a few months back. A few songs were flagged during a livestream I did which I’m ok with, as long as they are flagging the correct song. Well, I should say as long as they’re flagging the correct performance of the song. I agreed with the song title, but it sure didn’t sound like the same performance to me when I looked up the actual performance they flagged it as.
The bots in charge of flagging classical music do not seem to be able to differentiate between different performances. This is absolute horseshit. I want the revenue to go to the correct people, not those with the most aggressive bots! I’m not monetizing my videos at the moment so it really doesn’t affect me much, but the right people are surely loosing money to this scam.
I really didn’t care that the Fallout 4 stream was flagged, but muting my Naval Action video kinda upset me. That video was getting me some of the most traffic out of all my crap for this year, and now it is absolutely ruined. Yes, I could fight it (and risk getting a copyright strike), but I couldn’t even find any info on the group that muted it. I’m not going to get into a fight blindly, yet I could find no info on Charles Berry music. Perhaps they do own the copyright to the festival overture in E-Flat major, “The Year 1812” from the Bamburg Symphony Orchestra. However, I am unable to find anything on them let alone the performance they claim to own on Youtube. I have no real legal team, I can’t fight a blind accusation from an unknown source!
Youtube, your house is in disorder. I understand you’re in a difficult position with DCMA requests, but if you want to keep smaller content creators in your home, fix your shit. If the bots can’t tell the difference between performances, their use should not be allowed for those songs. I can only imagine the problems some people must have putting up videos of their own performances!
TL/DR – Why are you here? I type faster then I can make videos. Haha! Moving on – Youtube needs more accurate bots or more manual reviews.
*edit – Wow, I’ve had some actual people visit the site. I’ll have to do a better job of proof reading before publishing in the future.