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Just got back to NYC, and I’ve got a LOT of work to catch up on.
So far, I finished off publishing the rough Score to “Cipher”, updated a bunch of software, and am installing some new bits.
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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.
I’m not sure what specific changes this will entail, but it sounds like a whole lot of good news for people who are playing by the rules, and have been getting frustrated at the lack of recourse then YouTube rejects something.
Finally got this thing figured out. It involved changing Collations on all of the columns in the database.
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I moved databases a while ago, and now my search queried in the “Keyword” search on my music section have become case-sensitive. This is bad.
Can you help?
Here is the query as it is now (searching on “test”):
SELECT [stuff]
FROM pieces p, genre g, collections c
WHERE p.genre = g.id
AND c.code = p.collection AND MATCH( title, instruments, description, feel, isrc )
AGAINST ("+test" in boolean mode)