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Re: OT - Sony owns Bach??

Author: gwie
Date: 2018-09-09 00:02

This has been happening on YouTube for quite awhile now.

A software algorithm is used to analyze and compare the waveform and flag things that match. It can be done very quickly on large amounts of audio data, however, the quality of the matching is only as good as the algorithm that performs that task. Computers aren't "smart;" they only perform the instructions that we give them, and automating some tasks like this give us a level of accuracy far below what a human operator could accomplish.

The irritating factor is that the companies involved disable or limit the access to the content automatically if it gets flagged, and the person who controls that content then has to prove that it isn't infringing. This is extremely frustrating because a lot of classical music is in the public domain, and the algorithms often times are NOT sophisticated enough to distinguish between different performances of them.

Each season, I post dozens of performances of music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, etc. from my Summer Music Festival on YouTube and Facebook, then spend another whole day submitting the same explanation over and over when a number of them get flagged for potentially infringing on copyright: "I am the rights-holder of this recording of this performance. The music performed is in the public domain, the sheet music is a public domain source, and [name of company] has no legitimate copyright claim to this recording in any way, shape, or form."

Post Edited (2018-09-09 07:41)

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