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Posted home videos on youtube, background music copyright infringement?

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I just posted some videos to youtube, old home videos I converted from VHS dating back to the 80s. In the background, I have songs playing or family singing to them. For example one of the songs is Doris Day - Que Sera Sera. Looking under my video manager I saw "Matched third party content" and got message below when I clicked into it. Anyone have experience with this stuff? Does that mean I can have it up unless the the owners decide to take it down or something? Any help would be appreciated TIA

Your video may include music that is owned by a third party.

To hear the matched music please play the video on the right. The video will play from the point where the matched content was identified.

Your video is available and playable.
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Don't worry about it. Just put it up until a patent troll automation tells them to take it down. Either way, they aren't going to come after you.
 
The Copyright Cartels got Google to automate this sort of thing, because they believe that Fair Use should't exist, and that a person should have to pay for each second of music that person has in a video.

I say dump YT, and host your videos on a personal website at a foreign country that doesn't respect the US' completely broken and anti-consumer Copyright laws.
 
I stopped buying CDs altogether when I realized I could just watch people's home videos on youtube and hear the songs in the background.
 
HendrixFan said:
I stopped buying CDs altogether when I realized I could just watch people's home videos on youtube and hear the songs in the background.
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lol, same here. The lossy Flash compression of the music picked up from a consumer grade camcorder microphone really makes the sound "pop".
 
JEDIYoda said:
short answer -- No!!
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Longer answer -- monetization is irrelevant, but it does fall under fair use.

I say fuck 'em in any case. The founders never envisioned perpetual copyright, and explicitly didn't include it in the Constitution. Protecting 30 year old media doesn't do anything to promote the progress of science or useful arts. The copyright holders will disagree of course, but you can post your videos with a clear conscience, and know you're bettering the world in small way. It's always better to be right, than it is to slavishly follow the law....
 
I should have turned off the radio in my car before I recorded that strange contraption at the railroad crossing 🙁
 
I've had this happen to a couple of videos that I've recorded at some shows DJ's were spinning at. Two of my videos got auto flagged, and I responded saying that it wasn't copyright infringement. They give you an option to challenge them under "Fair Use." Well, one of the videos got the flag removed, the other is still on there because he plays the original song at the original speed for < 1 min, but that's apparently still too long for them.
 
For all the people who don't like to hear the high quality version of the song. I too wish to have environmental effects in my music.

Except for those songs on the radio that I swear have a honk from a car on them. I'm not the only one on those right?
 
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