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
He wasn’t doing it for a cover, he was randomly singing a few lines like a normal person does. That’s extreme even for your website.
That's US law. Lyrics have a separate copyright from the official recording and YouTube is forced to comply. Gotta change the law for this as it didn't keep up with technology. 'Normal people' don't monetise content according to law.
Eh. They comply because they won't fight the case that while the lyrics he sang may be copyrighted, it still falls under fair use. It's not, in any way, a replacement for the original work and is such a tiny percentage of the whole video that it's f**ked they get all the revenue
It's not fair use. Fair use doesn't cover what you think it does and YouTube won't win that court battle. 'replacement of original work' is just one aspect. The fact the video is monetised means fair use won't hold as well, plus length doesn't matter.
I'm not adamant about anything. I'm just saying what the law is & people don't like it. I don't like it either but misinformation is dangerous. Fair use is for journalism, criticism, parody, or education, plus only using 'as much as is necessary'. Covers/remixes aren't fair use.
This wasn't a cover of a remix though, surely just singing the 4 words in the way Sean did would come under parody, no?
In the Crazy Monkey Man video? He sang 4-5 lines of the song with signature vocalisations in the same order and arrangement as the copyrighted song. 4 words is fine, 4 lines is not. LMFAO couldn't copyright "Every day I'm shuffling" because it was too short and too common.
Parody would need changing of lyrics at least. He sang the song at the start of the video when it's proven the first 3-5 seconds of a video are the most important for getting and keeping viewers. He basically performed a copyrighted song to make his video better, making him money
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