I just filed my first dispute against a large music company (copyright trolls?)

jmartle

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I filed the dispute what seems to be a large music company that is issuing manual claims that are illegitimate. They claim that i used a melody in my video of one of their song but it is a bogus claim
And i'll be honest, the video is of a famous person. So its not really my vid BUT it still doesnt not contain the song or melodies that the company is claiming it to be


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So its not really my vid BUT it still doesnt not contain the song or melodies that the company is claiming it to be

So, you don’t own or have all of the proper rights to the video, but you filed a counter claim stating that you did?
Good luck with that.
 
So, you don’t own or have all of the proper rights to the video, but you filed a counter claim stating that you did?
Good luck with that.

If the true copyright owner claims the video, i'll gladly remove the video. But I wont let some random company do that. And I've googled this company before I filed the claim and they appear to be copyright trolls. So f**k them.
 
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@jmartle

Name this company please.

Most YouTubers who cry "Copyright Troll!" are actually levelling this accusation against legitimate Rights Manangement Organizations, or even media umbrella corporations such as Warner Music Group (WMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME), or Universal Music Group (UMG).

The above named corporations are not only worth many billions of dollars, which means that in a lawsuit you'd need to be worth billions yourself to have any chance of winning; but they also form the "Big 3" of the Music Industry.

If you've filed a Counter-Notification without owning the rights to the claimed media, the best that can happen is that the claimant rejects your claim out of hand. The worst that can happen, is that YouTube terminates your channel for fraudulent filing of a legal form. If it is a Content ID claim and you said the music was misidentified, you have a slim chance of success.

There is a famous instance of the worst case scenario situation in the archives of this very forum, where the channel owner was eventually forced to give up and accept he wasn't getting his channel back; running out of options, as there was literally nothing left he could do.
 
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UKHypnotist

It's one of those big corps that you mentioned. Let me tell you what happened.


The video i uploaded is of one of the label's music artist (after doing some research i found this out). It's a video the music artist uploaded of them self to their own social media account (like artist's twitter).

And before i uploaded the video i made sure it didnt have any audio copyright material (like music and stuff like that)

it's about a 10 min long vid and they claimed that about a 2 min section of the vid had 'melodies' of a song that they own which is total BS. The video doesn't have any melodies or songs that the claims is saying it does.

So they rejected the dispute I submitted. I didnt appeal but i muted the 2 min part in the video they claimed

I don't understand how they can randomly claim something they don't own. Unless they have legal rights to this artist's social account (which I dont think is the case for this particular artist).
 
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They as label owner, have the right to lay claim to all media produced by the artist in question; and the label in fact may have produced that video on the artist's behalf.

If the artist or the label didn't give you permission to take this video and reupload it to your own channel, then it can literally be said that you've stolen the media. Media on a celebrity's Social Media accounts isn't in the Public Domain; and taking such media without permission or license is copyright infringement.

Copyright infringement, is lawbreaking at the International level; in case you were unaware of this fact. It's also a violation of YouTube's Terms of Service.

"If you choose to upload Content, you must not submit to the Service any Content that does not comply with this Agreement or the law. For example, the Content you submit must not include third-party intellectual property (such as copyrighted material) unless you have permission from that party or are otherwise legally entitled to do so. You are legally responsible for the Content you submit to the Service. "
 
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Where did you get the song from? Most of these "copyright free" songs are usually owned by a mass music library like artlist.io and if you dont register your youtube channel with them or follow special instruction through their membership you will get a copyright claim. You wont be able to fight it
 
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