Today in weird YouTube stuff: I got a copyright claim from Ray Parker Jr. for using a piano arrangement of the Ghostbusters theme. We are now “sharing” revenue on the video. Then, I saw Jeremy Jahns post that he also got a copyright claim for singing the Ghostbusters theme...
I think they meant people just singing/humming the song (not the actual track itself) and getting claimed is the abuse.
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Singing or humming a song you don’t have rights to is copyrighted. They have every right to claim it if they want
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I am not saying that my specific instance was abuse, but the system of auto-claiming compositions is abusive. It can’t tell whether I used it in parody, or for what purpose I recreated it. That recreation might have commentary within it that constitutes fair use.
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