By Laurie Niles: A few weeks ago we posted a story about the problem of false copyright claims agains classical musicians who post videos online. Specifically, we spoke to Amy Beth Horman, whose videos of her daughter's violin performances were constantly being flagged, taken down, muted, etc. on the basis of false copyright claims. ![Youtube violinist]()
In most cases her daughter was performing classical works that are in the public domain - not subject to copyright. For Amy this was becoming a part-time job, dealing with all the automated copyright claims created by bots on behalf of big companies like Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group or Universal Music.
This is hardly unusual, certainly I've had to deal with such claims, posting performance videos and excerpts from master classes on Violinist.com - always with permission, always public domain classical works. But the technology used to generate these claims seems to work particularly badly for classical music, as it is unable to differentiate between a copyrighted performance and a performance by a talented student, if they are playing the same work.
A lot of people shared stories about dealing with copyright claims, so I wanted to do a poll about it to see how widespread this problem is. Have you ever posted a video, only to have it get flagged for copyright violations, when no copyright was violated? What actually happened? Who did they think was performing? Was the problem resolved? Were you threatened with penalties? Please participate in the vote and then describe your experiences in the comments section.
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