I just received this email from YouTube about one of my videos from my trip to Hawaii…
Dear JonathanDavidBrown,
Video Disabled
A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Hawaii 2008 – Day 6: Waimea Bay. The audio content identified in your video is Holiday by Weezer. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue.
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Sincerely,
The YouTube Content Identification Team
This is the second time I’ve had a notice, but what sucks about this one is that they are just blocking my video. The other video that received a notice had Queen’s Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, but Universal Music Group just put a Google ad next to that video, which I believe is fair.
Now I’m a proponent of protecting other’s art, but this is silly. This video with the Weezer song has 130 views, most of which are my family and probably 100 of those views are from my daughter. No one is watching us in this video for the Weezer song. If anything my daughter is probably now a Weezer fan because she’s watched this video so many times the song is burned in her brain.
This is why the music industry is failing and it’s not the artist’s fault. Well, maybe it’s partially the artist’s fault. They don’t need to sign with these major labels once they reach critical mass.
