I Got My First Copyright Strike...I'm Pissed (Rant)

hey everybody i'm rick piatto i have a lot of videos that are demonetized many many videos that are demonetized if you look at this scrolling of my email you can see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videos that are demonetized well what that is is that some videos i might play clips of five songs so it'll get five d monetizations but that means that those five different artists will split the money of my video all the money so i make no money it all goes to them and then occasionally i get one of these which is a blocked video notice from youtube what that means is that the video is physically taken down i don't get very many of those but i usually will make a video about it if it's something that i think is important i got one a couple months back as you can see here from simon and garfunkel for my what makes a song great video that i did of theirs and i didn't really see anything on here it's the second video that had been taken down out of my series of 99 videos i'm almost to video 100 and my what makes a song great series the other video was episode 12 which was fleetwood mac so i've had fleetwood mac simon and garfield will take videos down but then today was a first i saw in my email a really odd looking thing what it was is this this is a copyright takedown notice i'd never seen this before it says your video has been taken down from youtube what makes this song great episode 99 the cars says due to a copyright takedown notice that we received we had to take down your video from youtube then it says here you received a copyright strike now i've never gotten a copyright strike in 790 videos dating back to 2016. i've invaded his block but nobody ever has given me a copyright strike goes on to say you now have one copyright strike if you get multiple copyright strikes three we will have to disable your account that means take my youtube channel down it says to prevent this from happening please don't upload videos containing copyrighted content that you aren't allowed to use well i play copy written material in almost every video my entire series of what makes a song great is about playing the song and talking about it you can't teach people music without playing examples i can't do something well you know this is like led zeppelin or like bach this is something i created that's like it and you're going to learn from it no you have to learn from the actual sources and i decided this way back in my channel right at the beginning it's like don't worry about the monetizations play the music you need to play the artist get paid the money for my videos and i can teach what i want to teach because that's the best way to teach people i don't believe in making videos just to make money from the video views and not use any copywritten content the artists are making money just like they're making it when their videos get played if somebody goes to vivo and plays their video they get paid the exact same a million views pays 1200 bucks the car's video at 355 000 views made him probably about 350 bucks 400 bucks of course i don't have a problem with the artist making money from their songs they should i mean right i don't claim fair use i got on and testified in front of the house subcommittee for intellectual property and i don't i can't remember if it was senator tillers or senator coons but they asked me how come you don't dispute some of these if they're fair use because i don't want to have my channel taken down i've spent almost five years making 790 videos and like that you get three strikes and that's it they literally take your channel down and you have no recourse just because somebody's sitting at umg sees us oh they're using the cars well the cars not only do the cars give them extra instructions to block the video but they give them instructions to give them a copyright strike okay so this is actually probably not only umg but it'd have to be whoever owns the publishing on this if it's rico kasich's family or whoever i don't know but somebody decided to go one extra step not just to block the video if you want to block it fine right if you don't want your music out there you don't want people to say that your songs are great no problem i won't ever talk about the cars again never ever no problem but the copyright strike is just bs let me tell you some of the bands that i've used their music in my videos and made videos about why their songs are great like tool who have not only i've made two tool videos but they promoted my videos on their facebook page and didn't even monetize the videos boston steely dan van halen led zeppelin yes toto nirvana rush system of a down the police allison chains metallica journey smashing pumpkins these bands are totally cool with a slipknot all these bands right elton john but the cars come on the cars 99 videos fleetwood mac paul simon and the cars that's it but this copyright strike the thing that's outrageous about it usually you get a copyright strike if you dispute a claim and you lose the dispute then they can give you a copyright strike this is just a copyright strike out of nowhere for no reason i've never disputed a claim ever you see when that thing flashed down how many copyright claims i've had i don't dispute any of them take the money from the video one of the reasons that i haven't done many of the what makes this song great videos lately i used to do a couple a month at least but i stopped doing them for a while because i didn't want to deal with this stuff it's not worth it to talk about these historic bans i mean honestly i thought with my channel talk about these things try to to introduce new audiences younger people to these bands like the cars that are classic bands that were great songwriters that had important records but they don't care about that one of the things that it says in the email is that you can dispute it with the person that made the claim but i can't find anywhere on there who the person is other than it just says umg universal music group the only recourse is to go to somewhere like twitter like i did this morning and i posted this that umg blocked it i tagged umg and i tagged the cars the only thing that's actually worked on my channel is when i get on and make one of these videos share the video with people this copyright strike stuff is just lame i know i have a friend that called me he's like you know i got a copyright strike for a brian adams song from six years ago just out of the blue like what the video's been up for six years and you got a copyright strike well they contacted his management and they took away the strike well i don't know who to contact i mean i can go to copyright school it says in the email copyright school is i don't know i i think you go on there you watch some videos you answer some questions but i've testified before congress about the content id system i've actually done a panel with a bunch of people at youtube that do all their content id algorithms i talked this is about two months ago or so i did a thing where a bunch of people from around the world got together and i was their guest and i answered questions on how they could improve their content id system well i tell you how you can approve it how about providing how you reach these people who do i write to about this is it umg somebody there somebody at their publishing company is somebody related to the cars who do i write to to say can you please take this copyright strike away so that's it for today's video uh sorry that i uh did my rant here but it's just ridiculous after nearly five years to still go through this you know i was getting ready to do episode 100 on what makes this song great and it just makes me not want to do any more of these you know or at least only focus on current bands which i probably should do anyways these heritage bands if they don't want this stuff you know i mean whatever they can you know disappear whatever it doesn't matter young people don't know who any of these people young people don't even know who bands were from 10 years ago no it's ridiculous this is why too this life moves fast new things are out there all the time go to spotify i do my top 10 list four months later you know it used to be the same song could be on the charts for eight weeks at number one now you know they're gone it's just replaced with all it's totally replaceable that's the problem right anyways support the video you share with people leave a comment like the video that's all i have to say for today thanks so much for supporting the channel thanks for watching

Channel: Rick Beato

Views: 1,363,034

Rating: 4.961915 out of 5

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Id: E5lY_DbUsok

Length: 9min 32sec (572 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 03 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Barnowl79]

I watch that guy's channel all the time, he helped me learn to play the bass. Love listening to him riff about music.

[u/ignost]

Unlike academic coursepacks, other copyrighted materials can be used without permission in certain educational circumstances under copyright law or as a fair use. “Fair use” is the right to use portions of copyrighted materials without permission for purposes of education, commentary, or parody.

• https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

It's relevant how much of the song he uses, whether it is monetized, whether it would actually discourage people from buying the copyrighted work, and more.

I watches some videos, and it seems very clear to me he's using a reasonable portion. If anything, his work would increase sales rather than making people feel they don't need to listen to the full song. He clearly passes the test of being educational, with a fair amount of commentary. The monetization issue is tricky, but the solution there is to de-monetize videos with significant clips of copyrighted work. If he's only doing small excerpts, IMO this is not necessary.

Don't make a video until you hire a lawyer. YouTube will probably ignore you, and you might say something that will be used against you. A copyright lawyer can guide you on what to say. I know this is expensive, but you can't go up against big corporations with limited knowledge of the law. They know this, and will use it against you.

[u/fnordal]

Rick Beato's is by far the best music channel on youtube. And I find it completely fucked that he doesn't even get shared revenue from videos where he analyzes songs.

[u/haricariandcombines]

Rick has every right to be pissed, you tube is evil.

[u/Hieillua]

This won't stop happening until laws get rewritten/new laws get implemented or more case law about this subject is formed to fit our modern internet era.

Because if you read the copyright/fair use laws, these companies are often in their right. You can claim something is fair use, but the lines between fair use and copyright infringement are very grey and its very hard to prove. It's also very hard to stand up towards a big company as a regular Joe. New copyright laws should have elements where the weaker party is protected (the person that claims fair use) while the other party (the labels/rightsholders) should be the one that have to prove why something isn't according to those new fair use laws.

It's also very tricky to prove if something is transformative. The language within those laws is pretty vague and it's open to interpretation.

Even parodying something still doesn't give you enough protection. Weird Al couldn't even just parody songs without licensing the music beforehand and that was also partially pre-YouTube. You can't even use a different version of instrumentals you created yourself because the beat is also written and protected. There's also language in these laws that talk about the amount you can use for fair use, but that's also pretty vague and open to interpretation. It also talks about how you can't parody or make use of fair use when it ends up impeding in the way the rightsholders can utilize their intellectual property.

Lets say you have a reaction channel and react to 10 minutes of a 23 minute episode. The rightsholders will be in their right to take that video down if they wanted because it could lead people away from their IP, with them merely watching the ''highlights'' on a reaction channel. Why aren't a lot of these reaction channels copyright torpedoed to death? While they do get quite a lot of strikes, a lot of studios still see it as great promotion. However, if a series they own performed badly and a lot of people chose to watch the reactions instead, they'd be in their right to take those videos down.

A lot of people are just very ignorant about these things and think they're protected by putting ''no copyright infringement intended'' in their description box. Or quoting a bit of fair use law. You can't say ''I don't intend to infringe on a law''.... while infringing on a law. That's not how it works. A lot of reaction channel youtubers also think that they can use 10 minutes and that there's some rule about that. Which is nonsense.

[u/SnowbackMcGee]

Upvoting just because it's Rick Beato

[u/WellJustJonny]

Guess the Cars don’t want to make money and get exposure, that’s nuts.

[u/mishnitsa]

This is silly. I wonder how much money the labels and bands missed out on from people streaming their songs on Apple Music, Spotify, etc, after being introduced to the bands on this channel.

[u/SnooDoubts826]

Bright side is that strikes have an expiration date.