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Cover band copyright question... seems pretty confusing

#62
tothemax said:
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Remember the golden record on the voyager probes? Some music didn't make in on the probes over copyright problems.

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EMI declined to let NASA include "Here Comes the Sun" on the Voyager Golden Record because of strict copyright policies and exorbitant licensing fees. The label demanded a fee of $50,000 per record, whereas NASA's entire production budget for the project was just $18,000.
Although Carl Sagan's team and The Beatles themselves favored the idea, EMI refused to waive or lower the rights for the extraterrestrial message. According to the project's creative director, Ann Druyan, the label executives were focused on terrestrial money while missing the chance to send a piece of music into the distant future.
For more details on the creation of the Golden Record, you can read about the project's history on Wikipedia.

Like when the aliens find it in the 25th century they might make pirated copies. Alien mix tapes. For giving out to your friends and cruising
in your sports saucer for joyrides around the galaxy.

Johnny Be Goode however did go on the record. It is one of my favorite images in my mind, the look on the aliens faces when they hear it.
 
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Michedelic said:
Probably, if you don't control the publishing.
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I do control my own publishing and, when uploading performances of my own songs that I've registered and licensed for sync on YouTube, etc., I've gotten a 'copyright claim' hit. Easily resolved since I can prove I wrote the song, but it also shows the algorithm works.
 
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Major Seven said:
How did they handle that? What happened ultimately?
Can youtube ban your own song from you?
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Youtube as a platform can pretty much do whatever they want, it's a very David vs Goliath situation on many fronts since it's a huge corporation and a privately-run platform. If your video gets challenged by somebody (or more likely, a bot), Youtube won't waste a second either taking it down or demonetizing it because a record label or royalty organization actually has money and power with which to litigate against them while an individual content creator likely has neither of these. You can challenge it through the platform and possibly get your video reinstated or remonetized, but the likelihood is high that you'll have to go through the same process again soon enough. These days there are tons of scammers actually taking credit for other people's music they scrape the internet for, then using that to file claims with Youtube and get ad revenue from the videos- again an individual can challenge this and maybe eventually win, but in the meantime some bad actors have made real money off of your work (the whole point of their scam). Even if you wanted to sue Youtube, almost certainly you signed away your rights to do so when you joined the platform so would be left to litigate under an arbitration agreement with a 3rd party of Youtube's choice.
 

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