The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121599 Message #2657017
Posted By: GUEST
15-Jun-09 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: YouTube removes videos - 'copyright issues'
Subject: RE: Youtube removes videos'copyright issues'
"The music that they used wasn't stolen if the person who made the video used an artist's music as a background and in the description of that video they said, 'I do not own or claim this song as my own', then usually it would be fine"
This just isn't true. The copyright holder is the only one who gets to say what can and can't be done with the work. You're saying that if I bootlegged a copy of a popular movie, e.g., Star Trek, and posted in to my website for people to download, that would be OK as long as I added a disclaimer that I didn't have permission?
_Traditional_ folk music is open-source (see my blog entry on this from yesterday - The original open source music - but most contemporary singer-songwriter "folk music" isn't.
Whether the artist might benefit from the increased exposure is irrelevant because that should be up to the artist to decide, not someone who copies his work.