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Yesterday, I started to receive copyright notices from Youtube on some of my Genesis videos. They're all filed by the same party: "Streammer"
Who is Streammer? Well, their website confusingly gives me an authorization error when trying to access it, so let's do a brief search:
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/watunes
And that's pretty much all I've found. So, they're one of those content management companies that specifically handles the rights and monetization of various musicians' works on the Internet.
But here's the problem: I have no way to confirm that they're claiming my videos on Sega's behalf.
This is actually an infuriatingly frequent issue with Youtube's content ID system that I've run into several times in the past. Let me show you how this usually goes.
First, some asshole decides to record some video game music in an emulator and sell it on iTunes:
Next, whatever company that ends up handling the rights for this asshole (in the specific case above: "VidZone") gets his "work" entered into their database, and I start getting hit with copyright notices:
At this point, I do some bare minimum detective work that I shouldn't even have to trouble myself with, figure out what's going on, file a dispute with Youtube stating that this asshole doesn't even have the right to claim this content, and in a day or two or twelve, the claim gets released and things go back to normal.
That didn't happen this time, though.
(Notice that this isn't even the first time that this particular video has been hit.)
I filed my dispute as usual, stating that I want confirmation that Streammer is authorized by the rights holder, Sega, to claim the disputed music. I received no answer to my request, just a notice that Streammer has reinstated their claim and that I'll need to file an appeal and risk my Youtube account to continue fighting this.
So, what do I do? If Sega is really having these guys handle their stuff like this, then that would suck and probably still be worth bitching about, but it's within their rights and I don't really care enough about it to bother. But if it's another case of some asshole and his scummy content management company abusing Youtube's broken content ID system for their monetary benefit at the expense of users, then I'm kind of pissed and want to know what could be done about it.
Anyone know who I could contact at Sega for a straight answer on this, at least? Streammer certainly isn't any help, and Youtube is just a pain to deal with.
I've certainly given up hope that Youtube will ever fix the mess that is their content ID system.
Who is Streammer? Well, their website confusingly gives me an authorization error when trying to access it, so let's do a brief search:
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/watunes
And that's pretty much all I've found. So, they're one of those content management companies that specifically handles the rights and monetization of various musicians' works on the Internet.
But here's the problem: I have no way to confirm that they're claiming my videos on Sega's behalf.
This is actually an infuriatingly frequent issue with Youtube's content ID system that I've run into several times in the past. Let me show you how this usually goes.
First, some asshole decides to record some video game music in an emulator and sell it on iTunes:
Next, whatever company that ends up handling the rights for this asshole (in the specific case above: "VidZone") gets his "work" entered into their database, and I start getting hit with copyright notices:
At this point, I do some bare minimum detective work that I shouldn't even have to trouble myself with, figure out what's going on, file a dispute with Youtube stating that this asshole doesn't even have the right to claim this content, and in a day or two or twelve, the claim gets released and things go back to normal.
That didn't happen this time, though.
(Notice that this isn't even the first time that this particular video has been hit.)
I filed my dispute as usual, stating that I want confirmation that Streammer is authorized by the rights holder, Sega, to claim the disputed music. I received no answer to my request, just a notice that Streammer has reinstated their claim and that I'll need to file an appeal and risk my Youtube account to continue fighting this.
So, what do I do? If Sega is really having these guys handle their stuff like this, then that would suck and probably still be worth bitching about, but it's within their rights and I don't really care enough about it to bother. But if it's another case of some asshole and his scummy content management company abusing Youtube's broken content ID system for their monetary benefit at the expense of users, then I'm kind of pissed and want to know what could be done about it.
Anyone know who I could contact at Sega for a straight answer on this, at least? Streammer certainly isn't any help, and Youtube is just a pain to deal with.
I've certainly given up hope that Youtube will ever fix the mess that is their content ID system.
