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Somebody taught me this trick a long time ago because UA-camrs were sick of having their entire monetization claimed for different music. Revenue shares are fair but complete blanket claims are ridiculous so here's how to get around it. Create an account with a music distribution site such as distrokid. Create a theme song for your channel that is completely original it could be just a bunch of silly noises all mixed together but that piece of music needs to be in your video every single time. Upload that music or whatever you want to call it to distrokid and choose the UA-cam option. From then on, revenue share is forced and there's not a darn thing the big music labels can do about it! Although they can outright stop the video but at least UA-cam now has the ability to remove music with AI.
So just a random question, but could you sue the artist or law firm for the distress that the legal issues caused you, for not taking the time to check that their claim is even their right before giving a DMCA? Love your work by the way, you are not shark lawyer in anyway and really doing this because it has a connection to the you. We need more people like you in the world
Now this exact thing happened on UA-cam to the Studio Killers on the song Bedroom Eyes they had rights to remix/re-sing parts as the other original Knocks version the two groups worked together to do but Bedroom Eyes by the Knocks they got the first version demonetizes and hidden then made a new version then the Studio Killers had to make a second version becuse the original got hidden and blocked then second was hidden from view. This was 3 years ago when UA-cam had changed its algorithm and screwed for a period on collaborations between music artists or two different people. The incident was not the same as one in December 2023 where it was more a change in policy as a CYA for all sports leagues when most often do not care, even broadcasters do not care if the events are over X number of years old or the sport is like the NASCAR/ARCA series. I mean the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) had to go back and re-allow all the previous year of work on their own UA-cam channel and the Disc Golf Pro Tour pay to film events/parts of events for UA-cam the (PDGA) and Disc Golf Pro Tour had to allow the videos on the video crews own channel.
As a musician that is distributing my music, this is very much appreciated! My band is nowhere near as big as Ola's brand / channel / music, but this might come in handy one day, who knows! Thank you for what you're doing here.
I'm nowhere near being famous and something similar happened to me. I had a placement with a song of mine (I PROMISED NOT TO DO IT) with Volkswagen in Europe for their hardtop convertible, the Eos. Somebody went to my website, downloaded my songs, and stole my pictures. This person then proceeded to try to sell synch rights to my music . They set up a fake Facebook page, with my pictures and my music. My synch agent found this because one of his clients I had dealt with asked him about the second profile. We reported the fake profile to Facebook, and they told us the fake profile did "NOT VIOLATE COMMUNITY STANDARDS". So if you create something marketable, Facebook doesn't have a problem if someone steals your music and likeness. TOTAL B.S.
UA-cam and Spotify need to address this type of problem urgently. Both platforms offer the possibility for scammers to exploit the platforms for criminal activities if they do not take serious measures to counteract this. If Spotify wants to be serious, they should close the Chinese artist's account ASAP.
For those who don't know, Englund is former Six Feet Under axeman. The whole UA-cam copyright claim system is completely flawed. I'm just glad I live in Germany. If someone claims my music I sue the sheit out of them for fals copyright claim, doing so is highly illegal in Germany and UA-cam HAS to respect the German "creators rights" laws.
My main irritation is that if I cover Public Domain songs...(eg:Silent Night) and it gets 3rd party matched by Sony...(This happened to me with The Skye Boat Song)you challenge it...Sony say no...and you have to take it further...which is so scary...and such a palaver that's it's just not worth it and Sony get away with it.
its pretty complicated, it may be a public domain song but you may be infringing on a sound recording that Sony has. Most people in business are ruthless and instinctively know who is going to back down from a fight.
@@godsinbox Unless you're covering a song and it ends up sounding near-identical to a sound recording of a PD song, I don't know how that's going to happen.
Those companies with automatic algorithms that do the detection should be required to review each one that is not a 100% match to a recording they own. Only when they are held accountable, legally and financially, for false takedowns, will they stop blanket notices. They face no penalty for overreaching...even to the extreme.
Disney stole Victor Hugo 'Le Bossu de Notre-Dame', didn't even credited him for it. But they are like hawks with their stuff. His father is not of this world, and you can tell.
A couple years ago I used about ten seconds of Hungarian Dance (J. Brahms) which, while the composition is PD, the performance is copyrighted. I was not too concerned about it as less than 100 people would probably ever see the video. One day I was working on something else on my channel and noticed a flag on the video with the clip of Brahms saying that the publisher was claiming monetization for my video (which was never monetized in the first place). The thing is, I was NEVER sent a notification from UA-cam, of any kind. I just stumbled onto this flag on one of my listings. If I had more than four videos on my channel, I may have never saw it at all. Since I wasn't making money from the video anyway, I just ignored it. Several months later, I looked again, thinking it was odd that I never got any notification email, and the flag was gone. No idea what was going on there.
Great video and response. It just shows how far behind the laws and procedures are for this kind of crap. It’s a nightmare on both sides, from receiving a false claim on your music to trying to file a claim against someone else. These platforms need to be forced to come up with a viable solution that protects the musicians and isn’t a labyrinth of procedures.
Well said. The internet is so vast, like a new wild frontier. Musicians have enough issues with writing songs, practicing, dealing with band mates bullshit, venues, albums and sadly copyright tends to get left out. But these days, it's all about being a content creator. There's no real certainty of what we produce won't get violated.
This happened to me, kinda, a few years ago. I got a copyright claim on one of my instrumental beats I had for sale, claiming it was taken from an artist called Gutter Souls. I managed to contact them, and according to them, they bought the beat from some random dude that stole it from me. Long story short, they paid me for the beat, and asked me to do two full albums for them. Which also introduced me to other artists who wanted to work with me. So it ended in a really good way for me.
So.....a chinese company (Tencent) which has the chinese government as one of its biggest shareholders, falsely claims the ad revenue for a song that is not theirs? What a way to boost income for your country!
This video's an absolute piece of gold - thanks for making it! Getting hypothetical, if Tencent displayed a pattern of issuing copyright notices against original artists in circumstances similar to this, would there be any way of going after them for not undertaking due diligence?
If they are in China, it would be useless. UA-cam should be required to ban such actors. China is a rogue nation that will not help or assist foreigners unless they are giant multinational corporations like Disney. Even then, they only act when exposed.
Such a cool thing to not just react to a case like this but to also provide actually informative and helpful advice like that. That's some cool, good person stuff right there
@@theParticleGod Incorporation makes it legally difficult to go after individuals, and there's likely no evidence that the execs had any knowledge of this matter, much less personal involvement. The one who is personally responsible is the "artist" who infringed on Ola's intellectual property. If anyone should be held personally liable, it's them.
Banning them is useless. They should get a fine proportional to their yearly turnover. A small-time fraudster gets a slap on the wrist; but when Sony Music tries to steal your stuff, clean them out.
@@theParticleGodi love coming to the comment sections of legal videos and looking at the pitchfork and torch crowd coming up with their arbitrary punishments.
I can relate to this kind of. Some in 2015 got a picture of me on my motorcycle in downtown Nashville and is selling poster ls and a variety of products with my image. Iphone case, pillows, mousepads, mugs, etc. I know in public there is no expectation of privacy but when you make money off of it that becomes illegal. To this day several websites are selling my image on multiple products and I have never received a dime.
Thanks for doing this video, I am a fan of Ola Englund so its awesome you are helping him out! I think that is great you are helping small artists/creators who don't have the large resources that these big corporations have.
@@DEFKNIGHT most likely it's a fly-by-night LLC that holds no assets that could fold in a day and recreate itself under a new name in a week. Or. It's some rando who is far too poor to be collectable from.
Tencent has so many more profitable ways to generate income, it's not likely that they are the ones actually doing the shady stuff. It's more likely that this "artist" found out about these procedural loopholes and chose to exploit them. Unfortunately, this sort of thing isn't new.
How do you reach these companies with these letters? I've had a problem on Facebook wherein "The Orchard Group" has been making false copyright claims on my original music.
You open your favorite search engine and use terms like "(company name) corporate office address". In the case of fb, it's 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California.
Your expertise is very much welcomed Krystal. One of my big fears of uploading music online is it being stolen by someone else. The information here is priceless. Many thanks.
I’d not be shocked if Tencent had a division within one of the companies they own which is dedicated to earning money like this. They have stated openly, much like a lot of their countrymen they don’t see copying for profit as stealing.
Wasn’t expecting to revisit this video with a lawyer 😂 I had a copyright claim against one of my videos for a song that was written in 1895 by William Kirkpatrick. Some record company is claiming royalties off music that’s out of copyright and filing a challenge through UA-cam did nothing.
Tic Tok is nefarious at least in the fact that one of my original lo-fi songs got flagged, original riffs, played my own music, sang, no samples, not sure how it got flagged and no response from their customer support, great your making videos helping artists understand the argument
I recently got done with Criminal Justice 400 class and I love seeing/learning more about our laws and how they can apply. Definitely subscribed and thank you for this video!
Thank you so much! As the music industry landscape changes so quickly, and more and more bands/artist are going the independent route, this is super helpful!
I am an Ola fan and seen his video, and a fan of your videos also and really think it was awesome to see the streams cross here on this subject. What a crazy moment, but glad you were able to cover this. Very cool stuff for indie artists like us to hear things like this, but bad for Ola even though he will win in the end :)
Thank you for covering this and offering the options on how to deal with it. It has happened to other popular artists on youtube as well. Been following Ola for a long time and never thought he'd be a victim of this kind of thing. If only legislation was passed to severally punish and fine those who file false copyright claims and the entities who support it
Great information, thanks. You mentioned in this one registering copyright. I'm guessing you probably have a video detailing that process? Can you point me in that direction please?
That's because UA-cam assumes that supposed rightsholders are scrupulously honest and ethical while the creators on their platform are dirty thieving scum who are guilty until proven innocent. The reality is that UA-cam and Tencent are accomplices in fraud and theft who get a cut from stealing off artists en masse.
This Wybie guy is likely a bot and there's other small profiles that are used specifically to farm revenue from the rightful artists of the content that was stolen from them. This shit is all over Reddit. Ola isn't the only one, but he needs to lawyer up. It's a much larger pot of revenue he losing by these bot distribution accounts. The revenue lost adds up. The bots are using small amounts to stay under the radar. Find the source of the bot and take them down.
Unfortunately, international bots will be a worsening problem with the growth of AI. This problem is only going to get worse, and YT will do nothing about it.
Ironic given what leeches lawyers can be. Maybe he doesn't want to lose a ton of revenue paying for these charge-for-everything-by-the-second vultures.
I think that it's less likely to be one giant source, and more likely to be many individuals and small groups taking advantage of language barriers and procedural loopholes.
To make sure to be able to prove copyright, Mail your creation to yourself when you create it, or a photo of it... and dont open the envelope when you receive it... the stamp from postal office has the date on it.
Definitely got a new subscriber for that one. And as a musician/songwriter myself, even better. But if I had to ask for a video to cover, how does one battle Nintendos legal team? They’re pretty much the seal team 6 when it comes to cease and desist and it’s usually towards their own community sadly.
The copyright claimant pisses me off. My autistic son was going to a school comprised of special needs children. For the school Christmas party / talent show, his teachers talked him into singing Jingle Bells while tapping a tambourine. He remembered maybe a 3rd of the words with his teacher helping him. He was able to hit the tambourine for some of the chorus. I was proud AF. He felt positive about himself. I sent it up to UA-cam for him to share. He went to share it with my GD(!) mom and it had been taken down with a copyright strike. If there was _ever_ a situation where that *did not* apply, this was it. Jingle Bells is so far beyond a valid claim that it is absolutely ridiculous. Unless an elementary student in a special needs school miraculously mirrored… it isn’t possible. Our claimant’s name also consisted of purely Asian characters. Somewhere in UA-cam’s magical universe, they have enabled what are essentially scam artists the ability to interject themselves into the ad stream. I wanted $0.00 from this video c as the payout was in getting to see my son perform. Pissed off me wrote an entire essay on the history of Jingle Bells which included calling out dates in relation to copyright law. The video magically reappeared and the strike disappeared. But the damage had already been done. UA-cam enabled the entire situation from the get go. I Will never not be pissed off. To date, I have written and produced 3 full albums worth of music. UA-cam and SoundCloud share 3 songs between them. That’s being generous. Not because of my talent, but because of the lost opportunity to throw ads between my videos. My DAW’s creators stream my music from their site. I’ve gained some club interest. That’s actually pretty cool as the chances of a club patron hearing my music in the wild is slim at best. It takes a lot of faith on the part of DJs to roll into one of my unproven songs. Some of the DJs host Twitch Streams where they can test them out. Purposefully staying away from social media is one of the worst things a music creator can do. It’s the fast track to slip into obscurity. I’ll eventually self-publish. But circling back around… If someone like UA-cam builds a platform, a service, then it is their responsibility to maintain it, learn from it, and improve it. Loopholes need to be closed. False copyright strikes are extremely unsettling. Damn it! I’m supposed to be rebuilding my studio (yeah new toys) and not doing this.
This copyright scam has been going on for some times. The scammer knows that UA-cam doesn't react to the counterclaim quickly so they collect the money in the meantime. The main culprits of these scams are from Chinese, Russian, Indian and Thailand based, from what I've read from other victims.
The real issue is, UA-cam doesn't;t punish abusers. They should ban anyone that files more than a couple of false notices. I don't mean something that may be in dispute. I mean just plain claiming something they have no rights in. Until they are punished and all funds they 'earned' seized, this will not stop. DCMA doesn't;t protect creators...it protects UA-cam from any responsibility.
Great video! Very helpful. This is the reason I don't even want to post an improvised jam on my channel, because of the risk of someone releasing it as their own, so it ends up in the UA-cam content ID. I've taken down old demos for this reason.
I've done several videos of cover songs & each one of them are gone. Which I don't understand because there are tons of videos of people covering songs. A few of the songs I covered are songs by punk bands & aren't even copyright protected, which makes it even more weird.
Do we have to register the song(s) with the US Copyright Office before we can defend ourselves from those stealing our music? It was not told in his video (and I did see the original video) whether he had registered a copyright or not with the US copyright office. Would that make a difference?
That does raise a very important point. China has such a low regard for American copyright laws and trademark laws. I remember in college I did a report on the issue Jordan Brand Vs Quaodan. That case took 8 years to resolve and Jordan Brand had ultimately won but just imagine a new independent artist getting their music stolen. Yikes.
Hello loved your video. This is a worrie that I have. I'm a all original writing musician. I have been only listing clips of my music. Instead of the entire song. I need to educate myself on this. It's awesome you do this for artists!
Whose countries law are relevant in such a case? Is it in Olas case the Swedish law, since he is in Sweden? Or is it the Chinese law since the claimant is in China? Or is it US law since UA-cam is an US company?
In regards to the DMCA notices that Ola needs to send to UA-cam and Spotify, it would be US law (since the DMCA is a US law and the companies are US companies). If he wanted to go after Tencent, they (probably) have a US or even a Swedish subsidiary that can be sued and issued legal notices. If he wanted to personally sue the Chinese national that uploaded his music to Spotify, that would be a China thing.
I have a question. Is there any way to find out if anyone have published your music unlawfully or is the only way to do it if you get a copyright claim thrown at you?
Great Video, thanks ...is the Copyright Office/Library of Congress the best way in the USA to register and protect your songs? or there is another way that is faster and safe?
I used to post meditative recordings to UA-cam but I stopped twelve years ago because I spent at least an hour a day dealing with copyright claims against my original works. I still have thousands of subscribers on my hypnosis/meditation channel and after seeing your video, maybe I'll start posting new material again. Thank you.
Hello, May I ask you the following question: I am a professional musician with an academic degree, working in the National Opera in my country which is part of the Ministry of Culture. Everything we perform on stage regardless of the music style has copyright fees paid at the Ministry level. However, every time I upload a video from one of our concerts to my UA-cam channel, I receive a copyright notification. Why? I even received a copyright notification on a video where it’s only me playing excerpts from musical pieces written over 300 years ago. Thank you in advance, and best regards !
Great video. Excellent info, am starting to write my own music on the channel now, will keep this handy in anticipation of this happening to me in the future. Thanks Krystle.
UA-cam is sooo terrible with claims these days. I stream a lot of games, and of course, some musicians thinks it's a good idea to claim videos of the games that has music they've created. That's whatever when I can just erase them, though that deletes the chat from the playback. The real problem is when I TURN OFF THE MUSIC, and it still goes on to flag my content as having some "clap-only remix"..... A very common pattern is remixes claiming the original music, like if someone has been remixing a video game soundtrack, that person is trying to claim all the videos of someone playing the game. It's so often completely different music too. I got no idea how many times it's been, it's definitely hundreds. One time I contacted the composer, because they were getting ad revenue from a video game that was made 10 years before he made the music in question, and just to be clear, it was just ambient background of a "dungeon", not even music... He got annoyed and thought he had at least as much right to the ad revenue for that game footage. These guys know what they are doing, and now I just play everything with audio off. Latest game I played had a bug where you couldn't turn off the music, it would crash as you set it on the lowest......... I GIVE UP, just disconnected the audio track.
It's such a pain in the ass though. When I put out album #6, Safe Room, there was this guy named Frozen Kitty that claimed one of my songs on it. It started on Soundcloud. I woke up one morning to an email from sound cloud lecturing me about how I'm supposed to be posting original music, and I shouldn't be taking outright copies of other people's stuff and posting them. They took down my song completely. Meanwhile, Frozen Kitty posts the same copy of the same song to their channel, does original track art for it, and sends it to the distributors. This was three days before I was planning to do the distribution. And my song's everywhere now with his name on it. And before you point out that, yes, I'm known for using AI in my process, remember... none of my songs are written by ai. I'm a very traditional songwriter. And I don't think I would have cared, if they had taken the lyrics, or the song, and done a remix of it, or added something to the pice. There's a song floating around the Nashville pop charts that's based on something I wrote, totally uncredited, that I don't mind at all. That time, they changed the melody, and some of the words. So that's a different thing, and something I support completely. Sure, make me immortal, spread my influence. People will figure it out eventually. I do not mind. But in this case, dude actively tried to take my song, and stop me from distributing work that I created. And three days before an album drop no less. It really screwed up the whole release process, because I had to get in touch with the legal departments at apple, youtube, and distrokid. It took two weeks before I could get the situation straight, and all the while, I had to explain to all of them how the song was even protectable legally in the first place. Talking to a few other artists, what I figured out was that there's a pattern there. How these people operate. It looks like they check soundcloud and youtube, then they check to see if it's being distributed by the distributors. If it's not, they'll try to claim a piece. The whole ordeal has changed my behavior around releasing songs. Either I'm releasing everything as a single now, or I'm not releasing anything until the album drops. It's utter bullshit that there are people out there doing this. I'm still angry
At 15:45 you say how you can prove in the legal sense that something is your music. You say to get a piece of paper (in the legal sense). I don't know what exactly you mean with the term _"filing to register"_ ... How can I get that piece of paper with a (case-)number on it if I'm not an American? I don't know how to do that...
Thank you, Miss Krystle. This is one of the best channels on UA-cam today-a platform that was initially meant to empower creators of all kinds and is still seen as such by many. However, few people truly understand how everything works here until they encounter problems themselves. You mentioned in your video that labels often claim covers on UA-cam and monetize them for their own benefit. But what happens when a creator makes a mashup cover using multiple songs owned by different labels? Or when a guitarist plays the "Top 100 Riffs of All Time," or another UA-camr creates a video with the "Top Songs of All Time," which are also owned by various labels? In such cases, do the labels split the monetization from those videos, bombarding the UA-camr with a ton of copyright claims for just one video? I’d greatly appreciate your response.
I wrote a song with my old band.. around 2008 we recorded it.. my band broke up and my former singer uploaded all the songs I wrote on Reverbnation back in 2009.. under a new band name "Dollar trip" he then stopped playing music.. I continued on forming another band that still continues on today.. here is the problem.. one of the songs.. "another like you" was.. stolen.. and.. on a platinum album by an artist and released in 2023! The lyrics have been rewritten.. and it is called "Hollywood" by the Canadian artist called "Talk".. I have the original CD it was recorded on as well as the original files.. but also the music was uploaded on Reverbnation back in 2009.. so it is out there and available to hear.. I didnt file a copyright claim with the library of Congress because I never bothered with any of the old songs I wrote.. and only spent money to copyright the newer songs we've written.. I have played the song for several peer musicians to get their take on the two songs and all of said the music was clearly stolen from me.. I've tried to find lawyers locally (Detroit, Michigan) and one reached out with a $500 up front consultation fee.. which I will never be able to afford.. no idea what to do..
If you won't/can't afford to lawyer up, they win. That is why they did it in the first place. Few can afford the costs to protect their rights. My wife had to sue someone over several fraudulent copyright claims and we won the case, but it cost over $40,000. We did have funding because it was one of only a few cases filed over the DCMA that was a clean case that could set precedent. We did win and the judge even called the other party 'horrible people' during the hearing. We did not end up getting fully paid back, nor did UA-cam restore our long deleted account. We did get our content and the other party is paying a price with their reputation. The system is absolutely horrible. The laws protect the giant companies, like UA-cam, not the artist or creators. Try and go up against a large label and they will bankrupt you before you even get to court.
I came to watch your vid cause you had Ola in your Title . I know your a lawyer and a professional but WoW you are breathtaking gorgeous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey I'm have a problem with my old band mates/label. They repressed an album that I helped write and recorded. He has re pressed the album claiming that he wrote everything and used studio musicians. I have recently filed my own ascap. What should I do now?
I've read about this happening to others. People claim it's their music, in order to get paid by the real owner. Not dived deep into the truth of it.But wouldn't be surprised if it happened
i cant even re upload my own tracks on a second Spotify account after deleing it from the previous account bc its already released but this guy can steal whole albums?
Hi Lawyer !! Great video 👍👍. I HAVE A QUESTION On a bunch of already release songs in YT, iTunes and others, is it possible to register those bunch of songs on only ONE COPYRIGHT APPLICATION in order to save a bit of money ?
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Somebody taught me this trick a long time ago because UA-camrs were sick of having their entire monetization claimed for different music. Revenue shares are fair but complete blanket claims are ridiculous so here's how to get around it.
Create an account with a music distribution site such as distrokid. Create a theme song for your channel that is completely original it could be just a bunch of silly noises all mixed together but that piece of music needs to be in your video every single time.
Upload that music or whatever you want to call it to distrokid and choose the UA-cam option. From then on, revenue share is forced and there's not a darn thing the big music labels can do about it! Although they can outright stop the video but at least UA-cam now has the ability to remove music with AI.
Yay! MISS KRYSTLE, you seriously rock!
So just a random question, but could you sue the artist or law firm for the distress that the legal issues caused you, for not taking the time to check that their claim is even their right before giving a DMCA? Love your work by the way, you are not shark lawyer in anyway and really doing this because it has a connection to the you. We need more people like you in the world
Now this exact thing happened on UA-cam to the Studio Killers on the song Bedroom Eyes they had rights to remix/re-sing parts as the other original Knocks version the two groups worked together to do but Bedroom Eyes by the Knocks they got the first version demonetizes and hidden then made a new version then the Studio Killers had to make a second version becuse the original got hidden and blocked then second was hidden from view.
This was 3 years ago when UA-cam had changed its algorithm and screwed for a period on collaborations between music artists or two different people.
The incident was not the same as one in December 2023 where it was more a change in policy as a CYA for all sports leagues when most often do not care, even broadcasters do not care if the events are over X number of years old or the sport is like the NASCAR/ARCA series. I mean the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) had to go back and re-allow all the previous year of work on their own UA-cam channel and the Disc Golf Pro Tour pay to film events/parts of events for UA-cam the (PDGA) and Disc Golf Pro Tour had to allow the videos on the video crews own channel.
You come across intelligent and assertive. Also, very cool of you to help others via advice on UA-cam. Salutamu!
Thanks for bringing this up and making such a great video addressing this. A lot of good tips that I'm going to bring with me.
@@OlaEnglund this sucks man! Hope you get it squared away quickly! 😎👊
Go get 'em Ola!
I wish you the best! Don't let them win. Thieves need to be punished!
Yay! Go get 'em Ola!
good luck getting it sorted out Ola!!
As a musician that is distributing my music, this is very much appreciated! My band is nowhere near as big as Ola's brand / channel / music, but this might come in handy one day, who knows! Thank you for what you're doing here.
I'm nowhere near being famous and something similar happened to me. I had a placement with a song of mine (I PROMISED NOT TO DO IT) with Volkswagen in Europe for their hardtop convertible, the Eos. Somebody went to my website, downloaded my songs, and stole my pictures. This person then proceeded to try to sell synch rights to my music . They set up a fake Facebook page, with my pictures and my music. My synch agent found this because one of his clients I had dealt with asked him about the second profile. We reported the fake profile to Facebook, and they told us the fake profile did "NOT VIOLATE COMMUNITY STANDARDS". So if you create something marketable, Facebook doesn't have a problem if someone steals your music and likeness. TOTAL B.S.
@@NURREDIN And that's closer than China...
Yeah, FB is basically dead in marketing use because of this. Not that other social media platforms are too perfect either, but FB just doesn't care.
I've reported videos involving animal cruelty to FB and got the same response.
Who uses Facebook anymore? @@Garbox80
Got to love the irony of China wanting to uphold Copyrights
UA-cam and Spotify need to address this type of problem urgently. Both platforms offer the possibility for scammers to exploit the platforms for criminal activities if they do not take serious measures to counteract this. If Spotify wants to be serious, they should close the Chinese artist's account ASAP.
that's not an "artist", it's just a thief
@@fjn667 you can't even report. I tried to and Spotify doesn't recognise the code that Spotify uses for the report.
For those who don't know, Englund is former Six Feet Under axeman.
The whole UA-cam copyright claim system is completely flawed. I'm just glad I live in Germany. If someone claims my music I sue the sheit out of them for fals copyright claim, doing so is highly illegal in Germany and UA-cam HAS to respect the German "creators rights" laws.
Also was/is a member of The Haunted
@@wizarddragon is a member of "the haunted" and "feared", as well as a new project, amongst other things (owner of solar guitars etc)
who?.....and who?.......no one heard of him
@@rray3630 Ola is VERY well known. Ola was also one of the artists that was in line for the Pantera gig also.
@@rray3630 Speak for yourself, Swiftie
I love the horn sounds every time he curses LOL
Yay censorship!
I'm a dolphin sound effect kind of censorship fan myself! 😅
@@theunholinesswithin70 he censors it himself. It's part of the humor of the channel.
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Thank you so much for helping out others on the net. This is why I love youtube. Thank you Top Music Attorney.
Thanks for the support!
My main irritation is that if I cover Public Domain songs...(eg:Silent Night) and it gets 3rd party matched by Sony...(This happened to me with The Skye Boat Song)you challenge it...Sony say no...and you have to take it further...which is so scary...and such a palaver that's it's just not worth it and Sony get away with it.
its pretty complicated, it may be a public domain song but you may be infringing on a sound recording that Sony has. Most people in business are ruthless and instinctively know who is going to back down from a fight.
@@godsinbox Unless you're covering a song and it ends up sounding near-identical to a sound recording of a PD song, I don't know how that's going to happen.
Those companies with automatic algorithms that do the detection should be required to review each one that is not a 100% match to a recording they own. Only when they are held accountable, legally and financially, for false takedowns, will they stop blanket notices. They face no penalty for overreaching...even to the extreme.
Happened to me with Bach's Prelude in C Major...on Facebook of all platforms...on a clapped out piano with tuning issues.
Disney stole Victor Hugo 'Le Bossu de Notre-Dame', didn't even credited him for it. But they are like hawks with their stuff.
His father is not of this world, and you can tell.
A couple years ago I used about ten seconds of Hungarian Dance (J. Brahms) which, while the composition is PD, the performance is copyrighted. I was not too concerned about it as less than 100 people would probably ever see the video. One day I was working on something else on my channel and noticed a flag on the video with the clip of Brahms saying that the publisher was claiming monetization for my video (which was never monetized in the first place). The thing is, I was NEVER sent a notification from UA-cam, of any kind. I just stumbled onto this flag on one of my listings. If I had more than four videos on my channel, I may have never saw it at all. Since I wasn't making money from the video anyway, I just ignored it. Several months later, I looked again, thinking it was odd that I never got any notification email, and the flag was gone. No idea what was going on there.
Great video and response. It just shows how far behind the laws and procedures are for this kind of crap. It’s a nightmare on both sides, from receiving a false claim on your music to trying to file a claim against someone else. These platforms need to be forced to come up with a viable solution that protects the musicians and isn’t a labyrinth of procedures.
Well said. The internet is so vast, like a new wild frontier. Musicians have enough issues with writing songs, practicing, dealing with band mates bullshit, venues, albums and sadly copyright tends to get left out. But these days, it's all about being a content creator. There's no real certainty of what we produce won't get violated.
This happened to me, kinda, a few years ago. I got a copyright claim on one of my instrumental beats I had for sale, claiming it was taken from an artist called Gutter Souls. I managed to contact them, and according to them, they bought the beat from some random dude that stole it from me. Long story short, they paid me for the beat, and asked me to do two full albums for them. Which also introduced me to other artists who wanted to work with me. So it ended in a really good way for me.
So.....a chinese company (Tencent) which has the chinese government as one of its biggest shareholders, falsely claims the ad revenue for a song that is not theirs? What a way to boost income for your country!
This video's an absolute piece of gold - thanks for making it! Getting hypothetical, if Tencent displayed a pattern of issuing copyright notices against original artists in circumstances similar to this, would there be any way of going after them for not undertaking due diligence?
If they are in China, it would be useless. UA-cam should be required to ban such actors. China is a rogue nation that will not help or assist foreigners unless they are giant multinational corporations like Disney. Even then, they only act when exposed.
Such a cool thing to not just react to a case like this but to also provide actually informative and helpful advice like that. That's some cool, good person stuff right there
Anyone caught stealing music should just be removed from that platform after they've been proven a thief, ban their IP...
Dynamic IP addresses would make this ineffective.
UA-cam and Tencent executives should be held personally liable and jailed for conspiring with these copyright thieves to steal millions of dollars.
@@theParticleGod Incorporation makes it legally difficult to go after individuals, and there's likely no evidence that the execs had any knowledge of this matter, much less personal involvement. The one who is personally responsible is the "artist" who infringed on Ola's intellectual property. If anyone should be held personally liable, it's them.
Banning them is useless. They should get a fine proportional to their yearly turnover. A small-time fraudster gets a slap on the wrist; but when Sony Music tries to steal your stuff, clean them out.
@@theParticleGodi love coming to the comment sections of legal videos and looking at the pitchfork and torch crowd coming up with their arbitrary punishments.
youtube needs people like you
Thanks for the kind words.
I can relate to this kind of. Some in 2015 got a picture of me on my motorcycle in downtown Nashville and is selling poster ls and a variety of products with my image. Iphone case, pillows, mousepads, mugs, etc. I know in public there is no expectation of privacy but when you make money off of it that becomes illegal. To this day several websites are selling my image on multiple products and I have never received a dime.
Contact a lawyer?
Thanks for doing this video, I am a fan of Ola Englund so its awesome you are helping him out! I think that is great you are helping small artists/creators who don't have the large resources that these big corporations have.
Helping him out. Yeah, publicly so she grows her own channel and revenue.
this has happen to my company multiple times , he is right , youtube and other corps don't respect copyright law
The DCMA is their get out of jail free card. That is why they don't care. No accountability for the fraud they clearly see and could stop, but won't.
So Tencent is doing this many times over to collect on Spotify?
Yeah this could be a multimillion dollar lawsuit.
@@DEFKNIGHT most likely it's a fly-by-night LLC that holds no assets that could fold in a day and recreate itself under a new name in a week. Or. It's some rando who is far too poor to be collectable from.
Tencent has so many more profitable ways to generate income, it's not likely that they are the ones actually doing the shady stuff. It's more likely that this "artist" found out about these procedural loopholes and chose to exploit them. Unfortunately, this sort of thing isn't new.
Tencent is a commie economic weapon.
How do you reach these companies with these letters? I've had a problem on Facebook wherein "The Orchard Group" has been making false copyright claims on my original music.
You open your favorite search engine and use terms like "(company name) corporate office address". In the case of fb, it's 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California.
Your expertise is very much welcomed Krystal. One of my big fears of uploading music online is it being stolen by someone else. The information here is priceless. Many thanks.
I’d not be shocked if Tencent had a division within one of the companies they own which is dedicated to earning money like this. They have stated openly, much like a lot of their countrymen they don’t see copying for profit as stealing.
Wasn’t expecting to revisit this video with a lawyer 😂
I had a copyright claim against one of my videos for a song that was written in 1895 by William Kirkpatrick. Some record company is claiming royalties off music that’s out of copyright and filing a challenge through UA-cam did nothing.
i have to say this is really cool of you Miss Delgado!!! Thank You.
Tic Tok is nefarious at least in the fact that one of my original lo-fi songs got flagged, original riffs, played my own music, sang, no samples, not sure how it got flagged and no response from their customer support, great your making videos helping artists understand the argument
Thank U for sheering this !
Should be extensive penalties for proven false claims.
Love your content. Thank you for empowering.
I recently got done with Criminal Justice 400 class and I love seeing/learning more about our laws and how they can apply. Definitely subscribed and thank you for this video!
Good luck with your schooling!
Ola is a cool guy. He also manufactures his own line of guitars.
Thank you so much! As the music industry landscape changes so quickly, and more and more bands/artist are going the independent route, this is super helpful!
Oh, i was hoping you'd cover this. Awesome. Love your work.
I am an Ola fan and seen his video, and a fan of your videos also and really think it was awesome to see the streams cross here on this subject. What a crazy moment, but glad you were able to cover this. Very cool stuff for indie artists like us to hear things like this, but bad for Ola even though he will win in the end :)
Thanks for the kind words. And for the support.
Thank you for covering this and offering the options on how to deal with it. It has happened to other popular artists on youtube as well. Been following Ola for a long time and never thought he'd be a victim of this kind of thing. If only legislation was passed to severally punish and fine those who file false copyright claims and the entities who support it
Nice, hope Ola can solve this quickly
I like his channel.
Great information, thanks.
You mentioned in this one registering copyright. I'm guessing you probably have a video detailing that process?
Can you point me in that direction please?
This is super useful information. Thank you.
Been a fan of Ola for a long time thanks for giving help getting him out in this s***** situation. ❤🤘
The bigger question is, will it chug?
I wonder why the content ID system didn't trigger when the Infringer or his distributor uploaded ola's tracks
They were pitch shifted and altered slightly so they don't match as easily.
@@stimpsonjcat26 content Id notice that
That's because UA-cam assumes that supposed rightsholders are scrupulously honest and ethical while the creators on their platform are dirty thieving scum who are guilty until proven innocent.
The reality is that UA-cam and Tencent are accomplices in fraud and theft who get a cut from stealing off artists en masse.
Bless you for doing this!
This Wybie guy is likely a bot and there's other small profiles that are used specifically to farm revenue from the rightful artists of the content that was stolen from them.
This shit is all over Reddit. Ola isn't the only one, but he needs to lawyer up. It's a much larger pot of revenue he losing by these bot distribution accounts. The revenue lost adds up. The bots are using small amounts to stay under the radar.
Find the source of the bot and take them down.
Yes seems like leeches or something similar.
Unfortunately, international bots will be a worsening problem with the growth of AI. This problem is only going to get worse, and YT will do nothing about it.
Ironic given what leeches lawyers can be. Maybe he doesn't want to lose a ton of revenue paying for these charge-for-everything-by-the-second vultures.
I think that it's less likely to be one giant source, and more likely to be many individuals and small groups taking advantage of language barriers and procedural loopholes.
To make sure to be able to prove copyright,
Mail your creation to yourself when you create it,
or a photo of it...
and dont open the envelope when you receive it...
the stamp from postal office has the date on it.
That's Ola's precious Swedish sweat on those songs 😊
Definitely got a new subscriber for that one. And as a musician/songwriter myself, even better. But if I had to ask for a video to cover, how does one battle Nintendos legal team? They’re pretty much the seal team 6 when it comes to cease and desist and it’s usually towards their own community sadly.
Thanks for the support!
THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP WITH THEM
Great to see you help Ola
Great contribution.
The copyright claimant pisses me off. My autistic son was going to a school comprised of special needs children. For the school Christmas party / talent show, his teachers talked him into singing Jingle Bells while tapping a tambourine. He remembered maybe a 3rd of the words with his teacher helping him. He was able to hit the tambourine for some of the chorus. I was proud AF. He felt positive about himself. I sent it up to UA-cam for him to share. He went to share it with my GD(!) mom and it had been taken down with a copyright strike. If there was _ever_ a situation where that *did not* apply, this was it. Jingle Bells is so far beyond a valid claim that it is absolutely ridiculous. Unless an elementary student in a special needs school miraculously mirrored… it isn’t possible. Our claimant’s name also consisted of purely Asian characters. Somewhere in UA-cam’s magical universe, they have enabled what are essentially scam artists the ability to interject themselves into the ad stream. I wanted $0.00 from this video c as the payout was in getting to see my son perform. Pissed off me wrote an entire essay on the history of Jingle Bells which included calling out dates in relation to copyright law. The video magically reappeared and the strike disappeared. But the damage had already been done. UA-cam enabled the entire situation from the get go. I
Will never not be pissed off.
To date, I have written and produced 3 full albums worth of music. UA-cam and SoundCloud share 3 songs between them. That’s being generous. Not because of my talent, but because of the lost opportunity to throw ads between my videos. My DAW’s creators stream my music from their site. I’ve gained some club interest. That’s actually pretty cool as the chances of a club patron hearing my music in the wild is slim at best. It takes a lot of faith on the part of DJs to roll into one of my unproven songs. Some of the DJs host Twitch Streams where they can test them out.
Purposefully staying away from social media is one of the worst things a music creator can do. It’s the fast track to slip into obscurity. I’ll eventually self-publish. But circling back around… If someone like UA-cam builds a platform, a service, then it is their responsibility to maintain it, learn from it, and improve it. Loopholes need to be closed. False copyright strikes are extremely unsettling.
Damn it! I’m supposed to be rebuilding my studio (yeah new toys) and not doing this.
Wonderful. Though I am in the UK, and the rules are a bit different, the info given here is really valuable. Thanks.
If you ever have a rights dispute with a US company (YT, spotify) involving US law (DMCA), the rules in this video would generally apply.
This copyright scam has been going on for some times. The scammer knows that UA-cam doesn't react to the counterclaim quickly so they collect the money in the meantime. The main culprits of these scams are from Chinese, Russian, Indian and Thailand based, from what I've read from other victims.
The real issue is, UA-cam doesn't;t punish abusers. They should ban anyone that files more than a couple of false notices. I don't mean something that may be in dispute. I mean just plain claiming something they have no rights in. Until they are punished and all funds they 'earned' seized, this will not stop. DCMA doesn't;t protect creators...it protects UA-cam from any responsibility.
Great video! Very helpful. This is the reason I don't even want to post an improvised jam on my channel, because of the risk of someone releasing it as their own, so it ends up in the UA-cam content ID. I've taken down old demos for this reason.
Just wanted to say thank you for helping Ola out 🙏🏻
I've done several videos of cover songs & each one of them are gone. Which I don't understand because there are tons of videos of people covering songs.
A few of the songs I covered are songs by punk bands & aren't even copyright protected, which makes it even more weird.
Some excellent 'Self-Help' advice for another productive school day. Thank you for sharing, Krystle. 👍
love you and Thanks for all your videos and all your help Love from Mik Roy from Denmark ❤❤❤
Do we have to register the song(s) with the US Copyright Office before we can defend ourselves from those stealing our music? It was not told in his video (and I did see the original video) whether he had registered a copyright or not with the US copyright office. Would that make a difference?
Fantastic content as always - thank you for sharing your expertise.
Thanks for the kind words and the support!
Happened to paul davids as well
Thanks for helping Ola we love you now ❤
Does it help to include the actual copyright number from the Library of Congress if you have had the song registered?
You probably don't want to be giving that information to scammers. More likely you'd bring that up if it ever went to court?
Krystle dropping regular useful advice. There's a good heart in there.
Thanks for the kind words.
That does raise a very important point. China has such a low regard for American copyright laws and trademark laws. I remember in college I did a report on the issue Jordan Brand Vs Quaodan. That case took 8 years to resolve and Jordan Brand had ultimately won but just imagine a new independent artist getting their music stolen. Yikes.
Thank you so much for your content. This is powerful stuff to know for us home artists.
Hello loved your video. This is a worrie that I have. I'm a all original writing musician. I have been only listing clips of my music. Instead of the entire song. I need to educate myself on this. It's awesome you do this for artists!
Thanks for the support. Please feel free to reach out to my legal assistant if you're needing legal help. admin@DelgadoEntertainmentLaw.com
Whose countries law are relevant in such a case? Is it in Olas case the Swedish law, since he is in Sweden? Or is it the Chinese law since the claimant is in China? Or is it US law since UA-cam is an US company?
@@WaechterDerNacht basically, doesn’t matter because you will never recover anything from a Chinese citizen in China, no matter what a court rules.
In regards to the DMCA notices that Ola needs to send to UA-cam and Spotify, it would be US law (since the DMCA is a US law and the companies are US companies). If he wanted to go after Tencent, they (probably) have a US or even a Swedish subsidiary that can be sued and issued legal notices. If he wanted to personally sue the Chinese national that uploaded his music to Spotify, that would be a China thing.
@@theKashConnoisseur Spotify is a Swedish company though, not US based.
So glad you covered this!
I have a question. Is there any way to find out if anyone have published your music unlawfully or is the only way to do it if you get a copyright claim thrown at you?
Hey - thanks for reaching out; please reach out on our livestream. Every Wednesday at 5 pm PST. We try to answer as many questions as possible.
The Wybie guy is now up to 332 monthly listeners. Mostly the people they've stolen music from, I'm sure. :P
Great Video, thanks ...is the Copyright Office/Library of Congress the best way in the USA to register and protect your songs? or there is another way that is faster and safe?
I used to post meditative recordings to UA-cam but I stopped twelve years ago because I spent at least an hour a day dealing with copyright claims against my original works. I still have thousands of subscribers on my hypnosis/meditation channel and after seeing your video, maybe I'll start posting new material again. Thank you.
Hello,
May I ask you the following question:
I am a professional musician with an academic degree, working in the National Opera in my country which is part of the Ministry of Culture. Everything we perform on stage regardless of the music style has copyright fees paid at the Ministry level.
However, every time I upload a video from one of our concerts to my UA-cam channel, I receive a copyright notification.
Why?
I even received a copyright notification on a video where it’s only me playing excerpts from musical pieces written over 300 years ago.
Thank you in advance, and best regards !
Cool channel, you’ve earned my subscription. 👍🏻hopefully Ola get’s this all sorted swiftly 🙏🤘🎸
Great video. Excellent info, am starting to write my own music on the channel now, will keep this handy in anticipation of this happening to me in the future.
Thanks Krystle.
Subscribing. Ola sent me here.
Thank you.
UA-cam is sooo terrible with claims these days. I stream a lot of games, and of course, some musicians thinks it's a good idea to claim videos of the games that has music they've created. That's whatever when I can just erase them, though that deletes the chat from the playback. The real problem is when I TURN OFF THE MUSIC, and it still goes on to flag my content as having some "clap-only remix"..... A very common pattern is remixes claiming the original music, like if someone has been remixing a video game soundtrack, that person is trying to claim all the videos of someone playing the game. It's so often completely different music too. I got no idea how many times it's been, it's definitely hundreds. One time I contacted the composer, because they were getting ad revenue from a video game that was made 10 years before he made the music in question, and just to be clear, it was just ambient background of a "dungeon", not even music... He got annoyed and thought he had at least as much right to the ad revenue for that game footage. These guys know what they are doing, and now I just play everything with audio off. Latest game I played had a bug where you couldn't turn off the music, it would crash as you set it on the lowest......... I GIVE UP, just disconnected the audio track.
Thanks for people like you exist for us musicians:))..
Great recapitulation!
Thanks for the kind words!
Question: If i write something and someone steals the part or a song and do not have a contract or gema protection is there something i can do?
It's such a pain in the ass though. When I put out album #6, Safe Room, there was this guy named Frozen Kitty that claimed one of my songs on it.
It started on Soundcloud. I woke up one morning to an email from sound cloud lecturing me about how I'm supposed to be posting original music, and I shouldn't be taking outright copies of other people's stuff and posting them. They took down my song completely. Meanwhile, Frozen Kitty posts the same copy of the same song to their channel, does original track art for it, and sends it to the distributors. This was three days before I was planning to do the distribution. And my song's everywhere now with his name on it.
And before you point out that, yes, I'm known for using AI in my process, remember... none of my songs are written by ai. I'm a very traditional songwriter. And I don't think I would have cared, if they had taken the lyrics, or the song, and done a remix of it, or added something to the pice. There's a song floating around the Nashville pop charts that's based on something I wrote, totally uncredited, that I don't mind at all. That time, they changed the melody, and some of the words. So that's a different thing, and something I support completely. Sure, make me immortal, spread my influence. People will figure it out eventually. I do not mind.
But in this case, dude actively tried to take my song, and stop me from distributing work that I created. And three days before an album drop no less.
It really screwed up the whole release process, because I had to get in touch with the legal departments at apple, youtube, and distrokid. It took two weeks before I could get the situation straight, and all the while, I had to explain to all of them how the song was even protectable legally in the first place.
Talking to a few other artists, what I figured out was that there's a pattern there. How these people operate. It looks like they check soundcloud and youtube, then they check to see if it's being distributed by the distributors. If it's not, they'll try to claim a piece.
The whole ordeal has changed my behavior around releasing songs. Either I'm releasing everything as a single now, or I'm not releasing anything until the album drops.
It's utter bullshit that there are people out there doing this.
I'm still angry
At 15:45 you say how you can prove in the legal sense that something is your music. You say to get a piece of paper (in the legal sense). I don't know what exactly you mean with the term _"filing to register"_ ... How can I get that piece of paper with a (case-)number on it if I'm not an American? I don't know how to do that...
Thanks for the clarifications, when I say Ola video I immediately tought about you... (I made a comment about you to Ola at the time)
Thank you, Miss Krystle. This is one of the best channels on UA-cam today-a platform that was initially meant to empower creators of all kinds and is still seen as such by many. However, few people truly understand how everything works here until they encounter problems themselves.
You mentioned in your video that labels often claim covers on UA-cam and monetize them for their own benefit. But what happens when a creator makes a mashup cover using multiple songs owned by different labels? Or when a guitarist plays the "Top 100 Riffs of All Time," or another UA-camr creates a video with the "Top Songs of All Time," which are also owned by various labels? In such cases, do the labels split the monetization from those videos, bombarding the UA-camr with a ton of copyright claims for just one video?
I’d greatly appreciate your response.
Thank you for what you do
Thanks for the support!
I wrote a song with my old band.. around 2008 we recorded it.. my band broke up and my former singer uploaded all the songs I wrote on Reverbnation back in 2009.. under a new band name "Dollar trip" he then stopped playing music.. I continued on forming another band that still continues on today.. here is the problem.. one of the songs.. "another like you" was.. stolen.. and.. on a platinum album by an artist and released in 2023! The lyrics have been rewritten.. and it is called "Hollywood" by the Canadian artist called "Talk".. I have the original CD it was recorded on as well as the original files.. but also the music was uploaded on Reverbnation back in 2009.. so it is out there and available to hear.. I didnt file a copyright claim with the library of Congress because I never bothered with any of the old songs I wrote.. and only spent money to copyright the newer songs we've written.. I have played the song for several peer musicians to get their take on the two songs and all of said the music was clearly stolen from me.. I've tried to find lawyers locally (Detroit, Michigan) and one reached out with a $500 up front consultation fee.. which I will never be able to afford.. no idea what to do..
If you won't/can't afford to lawyer up, they win. That is why they did it in the first place. Few can afford the costs to protect their rights. My wife had to sue someone over several fraudulent copyright claims and we won the case, but it cost over $40,000. We did have funding because it was one of only a few cases filed over the DCMA that was a clean case that could set precedent. We did win and the judge even called the other party 'horrible people' during the hearing. We did not end up getting fully paid back, nor did UA-cam restore our long deleted account. We did get our content and the other party is paying a price with their reputation. The system is absolutely horrible. The laws protect the giant companies, like UA-cam, not the artist or creators. Try and go up against a large label and they will bankrupt you before you even get to court.
It was probably _Ken "I Bought All My Subscribers Parrot Tongue" Tampon._ 😂
I came to watch your vid cause you had Ola in your Title . I know your a lawyer and a professional but WoW you are breathtaking gorgeous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey I'm have a problem with my old band mates/label. They repressed an album that I helped write and recorded. He has re pressed the album claiming that he wrote everything and used studio musicians. I have recently filed my own ascap. What should I do now?
I LOVE that you did this story as well!
A.I. now adds another layer on to copyright infringement.
I saw the original video earlier and thought of you and hoped you'd cover it. lol
I've read about this happening to others. People claim it's their music, in order to get paid by the real owner. Not dived deep into the truth of it.But wouldn't be surprised if it happened
Awesome video and a great insight into how to deal with the issue.
i cant even re upload my own tracks on a second Spotify account after deleing it from the previous account bc its already released but this guy can steal whole albums?
Hi Lawyer !! Great video 👍👍. I HAVE A QUESTION
On a bunch of already release songs in YT, iTunes and others, is it possible to register those bunch of songs on only ONE COPYRIGHT APPLICATION in order to save a bit of money ?
Great video! Fight for your rights!
Thanks!