gener7 wrote:

 

Ash Wednesday?

Good answer, even if a day or so late. You're another 10 points on the way to being a somebody!

(Just thought I would do my bit to make this little 'point' system meaningful. )

gener7 wrote:

 

Gracias Kami    I think I'd sprain my brain figuring out some people...might as well go for the funny.

 

Other than that,hoping you,your piano and pan flute are doing well in Winnipeg.

 

De nada.

Lots of excitement in my musical life lately.... been getting thousands of views a day on some of my YouTube videos lately & have actually started making some money ($177 paid so far & another $160+ pending from last month. It would be even more than that (about double, actually ) if I hadn't had some erroneous (I am tempted to say 'fraudulent') claims on some of my audio. It got bad enough for me to contact a lawyer yesterday..... don't know yet how that's going to work out.)

It must be a curse of being a Creative. Every artist attracts their share of "rip-off artists",people who can't do anything else but try to claim it as theirs'.

 

Good on you getting a pro on your side,hope all goes well.

"Content ID Vampires" is how a friend referred to them.

At the moment I am looking at possibly finding a lawyer for a class action suit. Short story:

I uploaded a video of "Bethena Waltz" (composer Scott Joplin died in 1917, making all his music public domain) which was flagged by the content ID match system as possibly belonging to "GoDigital Media"; I submitted a dispute, and in less than a day, GoDigital 'confirmed' their ownership.

Now, this same agency had 'confirmed' ownership of an earlier upload I had made of Bethena Waltz - a claim they dropped after some nasty e-mails, threats of legal action and, last but not least, providing them with a list of errors and such in my performance. Unfortunately, this music was also contained in a long 'compendium' video (an hour 51 minutes) which at the moment is my top-viewed video - getting between 4,000 & 8,000 views a day. Even though they dropped their claim, I still have not been able to re-monetize this video, and I am losing revenues. That's a YouTube thing though - whether it's new policy, or a software glitch, I do not know, but it has lost me at least $200 so far in revenues I would likely otherwise gotten. I am trying to work with YouTube to get this resolved. I am not considering legal action against YouTube. However, I made great efforts to make my newer upload very different from any others on YouTube, so I played it more slowly, I added ornamentation, changed rhythms, and so on and on, but, what has really made me decide legal action may be called for is that I seem to have been a little careless when making the video, and I used an unedited audio track in which I actually stop playing and start over again! It really seems to me that no due diligence was done by GoDigital before 'confirming' their ownership. So that means that ads are running with this video now, and it is not me who is being paid. I think this is possibly basis for a class action suit, because I can't help but think that this has also happed to others, and if widespread as it could be, that means that GoDigital has been making money they are not entitled to.

Life is exciting. :-/