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Hello everybody,
Since many years I am happily monetising my videos on YouTube, most of them are my personal piano performances of famous piano pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky etc.
Since the beginning of this month, I got some copyright claims from a company named EmpireDi, which affected all my videos featuring my personal performance of Fur Elise by Beethoven. Later I realised that a rap singer, called Kola Mac used my music as a background of his singing in his song "Intro" from the album "Monumental".
Actually in his first song "Intro" you can hear in the background the same performance as shown in the Youtube video above, featuring my personal piano playing.
Now the problem is, that the YouTube's automatic Content ID system has recognised all my videos featuring Fur Elise are using already copyrighted content by the producers of this singer - Kola Mac.
As a result I am losing a lot of money, since some of my videos have over 8 Millions of views with more than 10K daily views, not monetised anymore, due to this problem.
I have already submitted disputes, still without answer and also contacted the company EmpireDi few times already and there is still no answer.
I would highly appreciate any help and advice, since this problem is disturbing me very much.
It is really not fair!
Thank you very much!
P.S. Unfortunately as a new member I am not allowed to post url links, but you can easily find my Fur Elise performance by typing it on YouTube: Fur Elise Georgii Cherkin
Since many years I am happily monetising my videos on YouTube, most of them are my personal piano performances of famous piano pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky etc.
Since the beginning of this month, I got some copyright claims from a company named EmpireDi, which affected all my videos featuring my personal performance of Fur Elise by Beethoven. Later I realised that a rap singer, called Kola Mac used my music as a background of his singing in his song "Intro" from the album "Monumental".
Actually in his first song "Intro" you can hear in the background the same performance as shown in the Youtube video above, featuring my personal piano playing.
Now the problem is, that the YouTube's automatic Content ID system has recognised all my videos featuring Fur Elise are using already copyrighted content by the producers of this singer - Kola Mac.
As a result I am losing a lot of money, since some of my videos have over 8 Millions of views with more than 10K daily views, not monetised anymore, due to this problem.
I have already submitted disputes, still without answer and also contacted the company EmpireDi few times already and there is still no answer.
I would highly appreciate any help and advice, since this problem is disturbing me very much.
It is really not fair!
Thank you very much!
P.S. Unfortunately as a new member I am not allowed to post url links, but you can easily find my Fur Elise performance by typing it on YouTube: Fur Elise Georgii Cherkin
