Me encuentro con publicidad en un vídeo elaborado con materia prima de mi autoría, debido a una reclamación de
Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society sobre la banda sonora. (En mis vídeos no pongo publicidad)
La banda sonora es un remix tecno sobre la partitura clásica, con algunas alteraciones, del
Claro de Luna de
Beethoven realizado por mí mismo en 1997, con un secuenciador-sintetizador.
Teniendo en cuenta que las partituras del
Claro de Luna son de dominio público, pues
Beethoven murió en 1827, y que no hay ningún músico intérprete ajeno implicado ya que toda la grabación a es base de sintetizador... ¿qué mierdas tiene que reclamar la "Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society"?
Googleando un poco, descubro que estos sinvergüenzas
LADRONES se dedican a reclamar derechos de autor sobre contenidos sonoros diversos publicados en internet que en principio son de autor desconocido... lo que en la práctica supongo que significa que no están explotados por ninguna otra sociedad de
ladrones de derechos de autor (por ejemplo temas de dominio público).
Se lo atribuyen por la cara, lo que en el caso de Youtube repercute en la inclusión de publicidad a beneficio suyo caso de no haberla; de la reclamación de las ganancias de la misma caso de estar el autor de vídeo percibiendo dinero por publicidad; o de la anulación de la música o el vídeo.
El caso no me ocurrió a mí en primera instancia, sino a una amiga a la que había dejado el tema para ambientar un vídeo hecho por ella. Así que, como ella no puede desdecir a estos mierdas que se han apropiado de los derechos de autor de mi remix, he subido el vídeo a mi cuenta para que me reclamen a mí, e inmediatamente he rellenado el formulario de inconformidad del propio Youtube... que dudo que sirva para pararles los pies.
En
Facebook hay una página de esta sociedad, que parece de chiste, que explica perfectamente a qué se dedican:
Information
You get the pleasure of posting videos
We get the pleasure of making money from your videos
It's a win-win situation :)
Misión
Our mission is to file copyright claims so that ads will be placed onto certain videos, and we will be able to make money off of them. We do not seek to have anyone's videos blocked in certain countries or disabled altogether, all we are trying to do is make a bit of money. That's not so bad, is it?
Descripción de la empresa
We are the Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society. In other words, we are a society that collects rights from the publishing of music onto sites like YouTube.
Fundación
2005
Productos
A wide variety of people post
videos containing content that belongs to our organization. We didn't
make the music ourselves, but nonetheless we can still make money from
it.
La mayor parte de la gente denunciada por infracción de copyright no se quejará ni reclamará porque al no ser los autores de los temas musicales o sonidos usados en sus videos no tendrán idea sobre el origen, no tendrán la seguridad de que estos fueran realmente de dominio público y que no pertenecieran a estos impostores.
Usas un sonido en principio gratuíto descargado de internet, estos ladrones te lo reclaman como propio, y no te queda más que creértelo. Esa es su baza, y sólo les falla el juego cuando topan con el autor legítimo del tema, como en este caso. Pero son pequeños fallos entre muchas victorias, y la prueba es que siguen robando.
ACTUALIZO:
Respuesta pronta de Youtube. Vamos, que no han tenido que pensárselo mucho:
Hola, XXX:
Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society ha revisado tu impugnación y ha retirado su reclamación de copyright contra tu vídeo "XXX". Para obtener más información, consulta la página Notificaciones de copyright.
Atentamente,
- El equipo de YouTube
Vale, pero aunque hayan retirado la reclamación... ¿se van a ir de rositas por haber intentado apropiarse de propiedad intelectual ajena con fines lucrativos? ¿van a seguir campando a sus anchas reclamando todo lo que pillen de usuarios particulares desprevenidos, o incluso propiedad intelectual por el sonido del viento?
...
Rights Societies stealing intellectual property rights.
I found advertising in a Youtube video made from raw material of my own (I don't put advertising on my videos), and that was because a claim of the rights of the soundtrack by the Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society.
The soundtrack is a techno remix of the classic score of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata, made by myself in 1997, with a workstation synthesizer.
As Beethoven died in 1827 the scores are public domain, and as there was no real musicians involved performing the remix, only my synthesizer... what the hell are claiming as his property that "Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society"?
Googling I made an idea about that gang of thieves, engaged in claiming copyright over some sound content published in internet with unknown author... that I guess it means sound content not belonging to any other Rights Society but to his own real author or to the public domain.
In the case of Youtube, that misappropriation has the effect of the inclusion of advertising to generate profits to these thieves (in the case there wasn't advertising before); the claiming of the profits of the existing advertising; or the cancellation of the video or the soundtrack.
The case did not occur to me at first, but to a friend that I borrowed that soundtrack for a video. She received the copyright claiming and told me. So I uploaded the same vide to my account in order to receive the same copyright claiming and immediately filled the formulary of disagreement of Youtube, telling that the soundtrack was mine, and that the "Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society" was fraudulently claiming the rights of it.
Most people reported for copyright infringement by these thieves will not complain because not being the authors of the songs or sounds used in their videos they won't know for sure if the sounds were really public domain, free use, or if they are making a legitimate use of them. Most of the people won't guess that the stuff doesn't belong to these impostors that are claiming the rights, so they will do nothing to stop them.
That's their trick, and they only misses the game when they meet the legitimate author of the topic, claiming him unashamedly the rights of what he himself has done, as in this case. But these are minor faults among many victories over people that ignore the real status of the sounds they are using, and the proof is they are still stealing.
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I had a fast answer from Youtube... so it seems they didn't need much time to check anything...
Hello XXX:
Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society has reviewed your appeal and has removed its copyright claim against your video "Chorizo". For more information, please see copyright notifications.
Sincerely,
- The YouTube Team
Translated from the original message from Youtube Spain:
Hola, qenene:
Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society ha revisado tu impugnación y ha retirado su reclamación de copyright contra tu vídeo "XXX". Para obtener más información, consulta la página Notificaciones de copyright.
Atentamente,
- El equipo de YouTube
Okay, but even if they have removed the claim in this case... Will they rest unpunished after having tried to seize intellectual property from others for their own profit? Will they be able to keep claiming freely the rights about all they want, even intellectual property for the sound of the wind?
