There is a very popular movement in videos right now; People playing video games. Typically, people video capture themselves playing a video game, and then post the game play to YouTube. There are some thing to be aware of if you’re doing this. Some games license music from people for use in their games; other games have clear rights to the music.

So, what does that mean?

Though you can play the game and post your video to YouTube, you may not have the rights to use the music included with the game (and you may not be able to make money on your videos).

If you produce videos like this – mute the background music, and record like normal. Then come here and select music that is appropriate to your game and your gameplay/commentary style. Mix my music into your video, and upload. Simple!
This will also give your video some differentiation from all of the other videos that are playing that game. Wins all around!

Here is just one example of the thousands of videos that use this technique. (Courtesy of NatskiGaming)

Polish version: http://www.autoteiledirekt.de/science/zagrajmy-w-gry-wideo

CDBaby is removing the Hypnotherapy assets from the ContentID Database; so, Yay! Should be completed in about 2 weeks.

It appears Music Video Distributors (MVD) claims to own the rights to “Sunshine (Ver 2)”. This is just developing, so I don’t have any details on it yet.

A video using “Pinball Spring” was declined for monitization. Appeal in process on this. Not sure what is holding it up.

Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society continues to claim my Brandenberg Concerto – but they are releasing contests to the claim in a timely manner. So this is just another ongoing issue where a publisher is claiming rights to a piece in the Public Domain.

Made in Etaly (“Ozone-Ozone”) is claiming… something of mine. not sure which one yet. I’ll let you know more when I know more.

I’ve decided to start chronicling a thing that I’ve been spending a lot of time on recently: fighting bad copyright claims concerning my music. Sony, Universal, and at least a dozen other corporations have – at some point – claimed that my music belongs to them.

The one I’m dealing with right now is Steven B Schneider: Certified Hypnotherapist.

What Happened.
They put together a weight loss CD and used my music as the background. This is both legal AND encouraged!

What should not have happened.
CDBaby entered the audio recordings into YouTube’s ContentID system, and everyone who ever used that particular piece of music was matched against it. None of these people used the hypnotherapy recording – they used the same music as the hypnotherapist did.

Who is affected.
At least these videos:










If any of these is you – contest it. CDBaby will release the claims. Will they give you the revenue they received for the false claim? Well, I’d hope so.

What’s going on.
Ball is in CDBaby’s court. My guess is they are going to try to protect their client. Hopefully they’ll pull the asset from ContentID – and continue to sell the audio by their client.