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YouTuber Says He Was Accused of Infringing His Own Song (cnet.com)
CNET reported this week that a musician, who plays guitar and has lots of viewers on YouTube, received an unusual email from the company alleging that he had copied a tune he wrote himself two years ago. From the report: But last month, Paul Davids says he got a rather unusual email from YouTube. The Content ID system had flagged a tune he wrote himself, two years ago, for infringing on someone's else's newer video. Someone who, it seems, stole his backing track to create a new track of his own. [...] "Someone took my track, made their own track, uploaded it to Spotify, YouTube, whatever, and I get a copyright infringement notice? Wait, what?" said Davids. The story has a happy ending -- Davids used YouTube's appeals system to quickly work things out, and let the other artist keep on using his tune. (Davids tracked him down on Facebook Messenger, and the guy apparently admitted he'd downloaded 'a couple of guitar licks' on YouTube.) But it's weird to think YouTube would flag an old video for infringing on a new one, no?
I'm sure the story going viral had nothing to do with a relatively speedy settlement of this issue for the guy.
If only we all could get our grievances with YouTube to go viral, the other half a million people who have been shafted one way or another might get an appeal.
We used to think the first uses of Time Travel would be to go back and kill Hitler's grandma or something but now I think we see that it's to go back and post hitsongs to youtube under your own username. Likewise people will write articles about articles that will be written in the future.
So now we have the first evidence of time travel.
Time travel will be used to play pranks on people in the past. For example, in the future we will discover that the late steven hawking was really a time traveler. How do we know this, well recall he threw a party for time travelers and guess who was the only person who showed up? Steven Hawking.
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This often happened to a buddy of mine. He'd write a song, play it on his guitar and post it. Then some random music company claimed it was theirs. It got to the point where he got tired of being flagged and stopped posting on YT for this reason.