graaaa~h! Copyrights.
I've had to remove two of my best Youtube videos in as many weeks due to my use of
Dead Can Dance tracks for portions of the audio. Warner Music Group must be vicious about copyright infringement, even something as minor as obscure, non-profit Chrono fanvids. What's more, I didn't keep backups of the videos after I uploaded them to Youtube to save on disk space -
- so I have to either remove the copyright infringement-tagged vids or leave them up and artistically gutted. Nevermore will we hear Magil and Lynx fighting to
"Avatar" or see scenes of
Prophet's Guile set to "The Arcane," which I can't find a sample of now. I guess I'll drop my small dream of setting a
Crimson Echoes preview to
"Advent," which would have rocked
soooo hard.
Now, I don't mind media producers protecting their profitability -- if I uploaded an entire DCD album on Rapidshare, that's something worth knocking down IMO. What I'm really bothered by is the fact that Dead Can Dance just lost some free, viral pop culture advertising thanks to my caving in to copyright protectionism -- I attribute the audio I use in my Youtube vids properly so people can research the artists if they hear something that happens to catch their attention. This is the one respect in which copyright protection may actually hinder profitability.
Ah, I just can't help but think of the wild mystery of Dead Can Dance music when I think about the Chronoverse.
I mean, does this not conjure up scenes of Lucca's orphanage burning?And speaking of which, how the
hell are those Youtube users able to get away with just putting up copyrighted music with a static image, and I get copyright-slapped for audio tracks that use a bunch of different music clips painstakingly sequenced to mesh with beautiful, beautiful Chrono video? Anyone know if Youtube has bots that "watch" and "listen" to user videos, somehow comparing the contents to a database of the digital signatures of copyrighted works, or do companies actually pay somebody to sit on Youtube all day and watch the entirety of
every single user video to check for copyright infringement? If it's just a fellow Youtube user who's flagging my videos for kicks or something, well, that's just
mean. *shakes fist*
Wow, that felt really good. Now I know why all you guys keep ranting here.