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...
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...and he was literally just going “dun dundun dun dun dun” with his voice. My copyright claim doesn’t say “match” it says “music composition.” Does this mean that everything that sounds like the Ghostbusters theme will now be swept up? How is this not abuse?
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Why would a music composition claim be abuse? Musical compositions are copyrighted. Did you have licensing rights to create a cover of the song?
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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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When I did a sad, elevator music version of the Best Day Ever for my Nick Hotel video, it said soemthing more than the note progression itself. It had commentary and meaning within it, but if the system sweeps up mere note progressions now, how is that not abusive to creators!
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A musical composition is exactly that, an exact progression of notes, which is whats being identified. Fair use is determined on case by case basis, and that’s why there’s a dispute process to state your case. A system will never be able to detect intention!
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