Comments on: YouTube Deletes My Audio Tracks

By: Keva Graetz

Keva Graetz — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:06:42 +0000

I really like youtube but yeah it can have some bad points. Like with copyright and things.

By: Steve Isaacs

Steve Isaacs — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:52:23 +0000

Robin: You can always use http://www.vimeo.com. It’s what I use for the videos here, and so far they haven’t altered my videos like YouTube.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:19:41 +0000

thanks

By: robin

robin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:13:38 +0000

I am really not happy about this…all I want is to share some enjoyment for the kids and their families on our gym website….I am not making money from their music…and actually it is for the pure pleasure of a fun song to go along with some fun photos of kids in sports….The kids love it and the families and relatives think it’s great to see the children doing their sports. I want to post on you tube then to our site because it uploads so quickly and offers the viewers the fun of watching all the gym videos from the channel. Really it’s SAD…the songs I have used that were stopped are great older songs I thought the kids might??? like….really it’s free promotion for the artists or owners of the songs….too bad. This has happen several times and OMG the music swap is so bad!!!! I have no problem telling everyone what happened and now instead of having a happy thought whenever you hear the songs you just think about what a BUMMER it is to have this happen…I don’t even want to listen to the songs any longer…makes me mad and truly SAD that it has come to this.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:19:41 +0000

Queenzilla:

feel free to go ahead and besmirch music business folks (I do it myself, and I’m one of em)….but you need to update your music biz terms. I don’t think anyone has worn a suit to work since disco broke big.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:16:23 +0000

Well…I do agree with your sentiment 100%…and people should be allowed to use music in this way…however

to answer our question: bars and clubs DO pay to have the music played at their venue. they pay a yearly fee to ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. and then from that pool, the performance rights organizations split up and pay out the money to the songwriters (directly) as well as the publishers. It’s very small, but it adds up. That would be a performance royalty, and some num nuts should’ve figured out how to set this up on the internet. Well…the labels and the publishers (yes, my fuggin business) have made this much too hard. so fuggem! (except that martymakins gives my place a shout out, so maybe we’re not the worst)

go for it!

By: Queenzilla

Queenzilla — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:14:06 +0000

Most of the musicians I work with would agree with you. It’s the “suits” that would disagree.

By: MikeC66

MikeC66 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:53:15 +0000

Great frigging track to sum up NYC and Snow in March…Your loss You Tube…Keep ‘em coming Steve!

By: Grant Ruby

Grant Ruby — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:21:48 +0000

Steve, the major difference between you using music in a video and a bar having music playing is that typically the bar will pay a licensing fee to one or more of the big publishing houses. One way you may be able to “work around” it is to add popups in your YouTube video advertising the artist playing at specific times in each video. I don’t know if that will keep them from removing the audio, but it would be the first step I would take in this situation.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:22:23 +0000

I agree 100% with your above position on the music. Redistributing the music is much different than promotion. If we were making movies for profit, than different story and I would be sure to get the proper licenses and permissions to include whatever songs I was using in my movie.

I like how Universal Music Group handles it’s inclusion of music it finds in YouTube videos. It’s a win-win for both the uploader/creator and the viewer.