Things I'll NEVER understand about copyright

themutetroll

themutetroll

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You know when you just opened your channel, used your favourite music in the background to cover the gameplay, and BOOM.
flagged.

I get it, if you steal someone's song and claim it to be yours, that's stealing someone's artwork, and earning for it, if you have ads.
But still, WHY would someone get copyright striked if he just used a song as a " background " for a gameplay.
Like seriously?
 
themutetroll said:
You know when you just opened your channel, used your favourite music in the background to cover the gameplay, and BOOM.
flagged.

I get it, if you steal someone's song and claim it to be yours, that's stealing someone's artwork, and earning for it, if you have ads.
But still, WHY would someone get copyright striked if he just used a song as a " background " for a gameplay.
Like seriously?
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because its completely up to the owner what they want to do but better question would be, if you know that the song is copyrighted why would you use it?
 
Just don't use your favorite songs, or find a way to contact the people who you are using the music from and get permission to use it. There are a few different ways to get music that you are okay with using. I also have a lot of musical friends that I will ask to use their music.
 
Copyright isn't just to prevent people from claiming music is theirs. It's mainly to prevent people from publicly displaying works of art or music that aren't theirs, whether they claim it is theirs or not. And YouTube's Content-ID automatically compares the audio and video of your upload to their database of submitted copyrighted content and if it matches, it automatically flags it, alerts the copyright owner, and performs whatever action they selected in their settings (share ad revenue with you, monetize it with their own ads, or block it).
 
Copyright gives the owners of the materials to distribute their work as they please, and they apparently didn't want their song distributed as background music for a gameplay video.

You know, how would you feel if someone took one of your videos and just said, "This isn't my video, I just wanted footage for a vlog" and commented over it without asking you permission?
 
Some artists might not want their music associated with certain content whether it's gaming or otherwise.
 
Someones music, even as "background music", is still a commodity. In the real entertainment world, if you want to use someones music in any regard you pay for a license, so when you try to use it for free that's stealing. It puts the owner in control.

Put yourself in their shoes. You spend months working on a piece, and find it played as background music to a video you don't like or disagree with. Their hurting your brand by using your work, and to top it all off you get nothing for it.
 
Look at it like this: If something is created and owned by you, you want to be able to control how it is used, because it's yours. That's how copyright works.
 
If its' only background music as the OP indicates, then having it in the production is clearly not important and this is a non-issue.
 
It's not about monetisation. E.g. most torrenters don't make money with the stuff they torrent, but that doesn't make it legal.
 
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