Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Watch this video in HD (it’s far bet­ter that way).

It’s not uncom­mon for YouTube users to upload videos con­tain­ing copy­righted music. In fact, it hap­pens so fre­quently that Google has devel­oped sys­tems to find and disable/mute such infring­ing videos. Rather then see the poten­tial pro­mo­tional ben­e­fits of fan made videos, record labels have gen­er­ally claimed these uploads are hurt­ing their prof­its. Anti-piracy orga­ni­za­tions such as the RIAA, BPI and CRIA actively patrol web­sites like YouTube, search­ing for infring­ing con­tent and forc­ing it’s removal.

In one instance, song­writer Calvin Har­ris found that a video clip he uploaded him­self had been dis­abled for copy­right infringe­ment. The prob­lem con­tent: one of his own songs. As the record­ing indus­try seems to be doing sim­i­lar things all the time, it’s nice to hear of an instance where com­mon sense pre­vailed… although in this case it’s not the record labels who have seen the light.

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Infring­ing Youtube Video Helps Album Sales’