Apparently I sang "Hooked on a feeling" so good in the intro to my Ape Out video that it got copyright claimed. Where's my Grammy?pic.twitter.com/VMy8kD3lFy
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Apparently I sang "Hooked on a feeling" so good in the intro to my Ape Out video that it got copyright claimed. Where's my Grammy?pic.twitter.com/VMy8kD3lFy
Because there’s a set of copyrights to protect the writers of songs for the lyrics/melody that they've created, you can receive a claim if you sing a song a cappella (regardless of the quality of your vocals--although, tbh, we were impressed). More info: http://goo.gl/ESkbsb
Not gonna lie, that seems like VERY OVERKILL in this scenario. Jack goofing off for his video can lead to him violating a copyright unintentionally? That seems very unfair... That kinda thing gonna happen to me if I hum/quote any song now? Am I alone in this people?
Yes, humming counts as melody and under US law the melody is copyrightable. That's the music industry and US law, and if YouTube doesn't comply they'll get sued. To fight this YouTube would have to go to court for every claim.
That is very ridiculous and doesn't take context/scenario into account. Doing that for the sake of someone on camera humming without trying to recreate music is WAY overkill.
Yeah, it's always been like that for TV. That's why they don't hum popular tunes in movies unless they got permission and it's credited. Us normal people only realise it now because we're making money from videos now. They don't censor on YouTube, it's just a claim.
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