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YouTube, Tagging, Copyrighted Content, Whatever…



So, a, uh, friend of mine, uploaded some quote un-quote copyrighted material to YouTube, right? Some songs. But this friend didn’t enter in accurate meta-data to describe the content. Anonymous Person simply used prominent lyrics from the song - other than the song’s actual title. This content has been up for months. Meanwhile, regular people who are song-players who upload cover versions of themselves doing songs - not the actual original versions of the songs by any means - fairly regularly get their accounts deleted and their content removed. Why? What’s the difference? Theories?







3 Reader Responses

  1. Tiny Ocean Says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    I don’t know if people actually get accounts deleted for doing covers. My friend who got his account deleted, that was over some Neil Young video he uploaded. He’d never done that before. And I guess he wasn’t as clever as your ‘friend’ about not putting the artist’s name, etc. in the title, where… copyright-infringement-seeking robots can easily pick it up? That’s what I’m thinking. But I’m sure that theory wouldn’t account for all cases.

    I remember sometime last year ‘they’ (’the evil corporate ones’, whatever) started cracking down on youtubers who were teaching guitar ‘lessons’ using specific songs. That was kind of a big deal for a while and then I never heard anything more of it. I think it was connected to guitar tab sites getting taken down as well. There were threats of legal battles… I think my life got too crazy to pay attention for awhile so I didn’t follow it… but I think it went nowhere because it was so ridiculous. Actually I think I need to look that up.

  2. Tim Boucher Says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    That’s always driven me wild that guitar tab sites come under fire. What the hell is the point?

  3. Tom Says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Dear YouTube, Can We Solve This Problem?



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