YouTube Claims GTA IV Sirens Are Infringing on Jazz Song
- Thread starter BlameTheWizards
- Start date
Emails in tha' place where I liiiive!
Dear Strongbad,
Can you copyright police sirens because they happen to sound like music?
Yours,
FalloutJack
Whoa. You like, wanna be careful there, man, fallin out of things all the time.
Anyway, Flapjack, the thing is that you can totally make music from sirens [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjIYMRAjn4], but you can't make sirens from music. We tried that once around here and all it caused was like...a dance party.
Not to say that dance parties [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPHsA28P8_g] are uncool, but it kinda' defeated the purpose of the siren. Anyway, you can't claim sirens are music if nobody's tried to MAKE THEM so, so it's kinda' dumb when the lawyers come out and the one making the claim comes off as made of stupid.
Dear Strongbad,
Can you copyright police sirens because they happen to sound like music?
Yours,
FalloutJack
Whoa. You like, wanna be careful there, man, fallin out of things all the time.
Anyway, Flapjack, the thing is that you can totally make music from sirens [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjIYMRAjn4], but you can't make sirens from music. We tried that once around here and all it caused was like...a dance party.
Not to say that dance parties [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPHsA28P8_g] are uncool, but it kinda' defeated the purpose of the siren. Anyway, you can't claim sirens are music if nobody's tried to MAKE THEM so, so it's kinda' dumb when the lawyers come out and the one making the claim comes off as made of stupid.
They are now definitely worse. Remember what happened when Google+ failed to catch on? They shoved it down everyone's throat through YouTube anyway.Hairless Mammoth said:
<youtube=LTq8TrA3hb4>
They have turned into this monstrosity that don't care about customer feedback and steamrolls through everything because they can. At least MS removed the DRM on the XBOne.
Yeah, good luck with that.Hairless Mammoth said:
Your own suggestion contains the very reason it won't work. Only a day? How about not using it in the first place?
Yeah, I think I do need to point out the irony of that, especially in light of that protest video against Google+, also posted YouTube. Are people really this stupid?Callate said:
The most hilarious part of the video is where she sings "we just want our website back." Sorry missy, it was never your website in the first place, Google owns it outright. I'm not sure what makes people think they have any stake in this.Raiyan 1.0 said:
They made the net wide to avoid people who speed the song up by 1% and avoid the detection bot, they made it so wide the sirens are turning into songs now. All we need now is to autotune the bot and we will be doomed.
Also its utimately ironic how many people here are angry at youtube and keeps advertising it by posting videos from it. If you really didnt like youtube - you wouldnt be doing this. In fact what you would be doing is linking to other video hosting sites.
Also its utimately ironic how many people here are angry at youtube and keeps advertising it by posting videos from it. If you really didnt like youtube - you wouldnt be doing this. In fact what you would be doing is linking to other video hosting sites.
That is the problem of culture clashing with ownership. Once a thing becomes ingraned in culture it starts belonging to that culture, even if technical ownership is still somewhere else. This technical ownership on things like Mickey Mouse has caused A LOT of trouble, including the latest, worst edition of copyright law.Aardvaarkman said:
So what exactly do you think you're saying?Aardvaarkman said:
Because you disagree with part of a company's policies in one area, you're obligated to forsake using anything else that company provides in communications about that disagreement?
Even if that tool the company provides might be the most effective means of communicating with other people who might disagree with that policy? Even when it's the most obvious way of communicating with other people who are inherently likely to be affected by that policy?
You might be able to make a case for hypocritical, or futile. But that would involve actually making a case. "Stupid", aside from being inaccurate, is the kind of word that's likely to get you reported to the moderators.
I threw out a pithy twelve second Youtube video in response to the unfolding situation on Youtube, and stated that I was aware of the irony of using a Youtube video in criticizing Youtube. The way in which you've chosen to harp on that suggests less that you're harboring a superior and high-minded view of the situation than that you haven't really thought your position through but wanted to dish out some ill-considered scorn.
Or to put it another way: No, people really aren't "this stupid", because you haven't made any real case for anyone else's stupidity.
Looks like youtube's new content ID system is giving everyone a case of the blues. And then copyrighting the blues.
Edit: Actually, I think I have the perfect metaphor for this. And ironically, it didn't trip the sensors.
Edit: Actually, I think I have the perfect metaphor for this. And ironically, it didn't trip the sensors.
Bwahahahaha! Imagine someone shoots something funny with his cellphone and in the background someone wants to know what this or that song is called and hums it into shazam.
Cellphone mic picks it up and later the resulting video gets flagged.
Yeah, just avoid *any* pop culture and find something else to occupy your time.
I know, there's not much else which we all can enjoy then popular culture.
But imagine if we found something...
Captcha: i can fix it...
well, captcha will save us all, apparently...
Cellphone mic picks it up and later the resulting video gets flagged.
Yeah, just avoid *any* pop culture and find something else to occupy your time.
I know, there's not much else which we all can enjoy then popular culture.
But imagine if we found something...
Captcha: i can fix it...
well, captcha will save us all, apparently...
Well first off. Why post protests on what Google is doing with Youtube on Youtube?Aardvaarkman said:
Because the people who care about +Youtube most likely are Youtube users? Because the people who understands how the policies and changes affects us are the ones using Youtube? Using an iPhone 5S (or whatever the newest one is called) to rant about Apple and how they suck is stupid since there are lots of other ways to address the users and the company alike. Youtube users are on Youtube, using any other video service than Youtube means you'll likely miss the opportunity to address your target audience. Did you honestly think it through before calling this stupid?
Now if we are to go into the ridiculous comparisons here. If you don't like an upcoming bill that your government is proposing should you be protesting it within your own country or move before you're allowed to protest it? Why keep paying taxes and use your country's services if you disagree with a new law? It's clearly stupid!
Basically this.IceForce said:
Just like Youtube's automatic captioning, which has been hit-and-miss for quite a while now.
Anything that Youtube tries to automate will always result in problems.[/quote]
Oh God, those captions are terrible. And worse still, for about a month they would always come up on videos for me, even if disabled in the global settings, even if disabled on the video in question.
But at least they weren't potentially costing people their livelihood.
Maybe this'll encourage some other company to step up and provide what Youtube has been up until now. C'mon, people, compete!
Indeed, miscaptioning can be funny even when it's not automated.Neronium said:
Seeing people lose money due to false claims isn't. I mean, I have no love for plagiarism or copyright infringement, but this? This is ridiculous.