Try uploading to Vimeo - they seem to be more relaxed about this.

Mind you the most copyright violations that keep popping up during genuine Google searches seems to be clips from bl**dy hard-core porn films. Maybe its this multi-billion dollar 'industry' that is driving this draconian move against copyright infringement.

But YouTube and others now have this technology to extract a video clip of music and assign a reference to the original recording. If that recording is then registered for copyright then YouTube seems to issue a warning or more likely simply deletes the said clip.

I see on YouTube that numerous folk have uploaded recordings from 78rpm records as well as cylinders. It would be sad to lose those.

It would also be sad to see the BBC comedy and other OTR programmes deleted. But the BBC is flexing its copyright muscles right now and recently got closed down RadioDwnloader, TheBox.bz, and RadioArchive.cc.

The real problem is that copyright laws are different in every country but being US-centric I expect that YouTube applies whatever draconian law is current in the US. And I understand now that there is legislation being formulated to claim copyright on historic recordings going back 100 years.

This whole issue is worrying because so much is now getting deleted - even from Archive.org - that soon there wont be anything left to listen to. Already its impossible to find historic recordings even of folk music.