YouTube Blacks Out "You Like Ron Paul, Except on Foreign Policy"

[kylejack]

It's not a campaign video, but I've contacted the creator.

 

[FreeTraveler]

Is anybody really disputing that properly selected music, mixed appropriately as necessary is a bad idea?

I think not.

The problem is that some of the music selected has no appeal to anybody over 30 and is mixed so loud it drowns out voices.

If you don't do those two things, I don't think anybody has an issue.

 

[aravoth]

How does this fall under fair use, I thought that only covers things like news/reporting/commentary type stuff, like if you're commenting on some event that took place, this is a political ad, even if it isn't official it's a propaganda tool.

Don't blame youtube for this (it's a part of google, and google employees seem fond of Paul) - they have to comply with this stuff.

There are many circumstances where copyright law allows you to borrow from pre-existing works owned by others. The most important of these are addressed by a legal doctrine known as "fair use," which excuses activity that might otherwise constitute copyright infringement. In evaluating whether something is a fair use, courts generally consider four factors:

the nature of your use (transformative works are more likely to be fair uses, as are noncommercial works);
the nature of the copyrighted work (you have more fair use leeway with factual works like news stories than purely creative works);
the amount taken from the copyrighted work (this is both a quantitative and qualitative inquiry); and
the effect on the market for or value of the work.
No one factor is dispositive, and the cases say that all the issues need to be considered together, rather than simply calculating a win-loss record on the four factors.

Fair use is a big topic. Fortunately, there are excellent resources online that explain it in more detail (e.g., Stanford's Copyright and Fair Use Center, Chilling Effects, the Fair Use Network, the Center for Social Media).

For most YouTube videos, however, a good place to begin your analysis is to ask the following questions:

Is my video transformative? Is it noncommercial?
Is my work a substitute for the original? Will people still want to buy the original after seeing my video?
How much of the original work did I take, both quantitatively and qualitively?
Was the purpose of my use noncommercial, educational, for the purpose of research?
If my use were to become widespread, would it harm the market for or value of the orginal work?

https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-youtube-removals

This exact thing happened to me years ago. It stemmed from a dispute MGM had with Youtube, one of my videos (stop dreaming) could not be restored due a technical error on Youtubes part, so I wound up loosing all 1.8 million views and lost over 40,000 comments on that video. I was ultimately able to re-upload all of them though. The Youtube content aware system stripped the audio again, I challenged it on fair use due to the educational nature of the videos, and the audio was restored.

Despite all of that though, the copyright owner can still issue a DMCA taken notice, and Youtube would have to remove it regardless of your copyright claim.

 

[dbill27]

Aravoth! Where have u been? We need you!

 

[Gravik]

Wow, they got rid of the short version of the video too. Lame ass youtube

 

[CaptainAmerica]

next time you put a song to a video...detune it a bit.

 

[escapinggreatly]

Wrong. I laugh at people who think like this. I could list dozens of great videos that would not be near as powerful if there were no background music(like any Aravoth video). People with this attitude towards videos probably have never made a video with more than 10 views. I have made several videos with more than 10,000 views and a few with more than 100,000 views and I can tell you that the music makes a huge difference if done properly. Below is an example of a video I made for Oath Keepers… watch this video and then tell me the background music makes no difference.

Completely agree. Here's a nice experiment for those of you who think the music should be removed: This is a link to another copy of the video. Watch it with your finger on the mute button, and mute your computer every time you don't see someone speaking. It's not a perfect experiment, because sometimes people are speaking off camera, but it's the closest we can get. And the fact is that even this great video can get boring at times without music.

(Honestly, though, the real solution is simply to have two versions of the video, one with music and one without. Duh.)

 

[nobody's_hero]

Just re-upload the video without music. Not hard.

I know it's not popular with people here, but I'd much rather Youtube police their own website than have laws like SOPA come out of Washington.

It's like how no one likes being stopped at the exits at Wal-Mart to have their receipts checked. But, that's a private company policy. Not much we can do about it.

 

[kylejack]

Just re-upload the video without music. Not hard.

I know it's not popular with people here, but I'd much rather Youtube police their own website than have laws like SOPA come out of Washington.

Why? Youtube does police their own site and will restore the video when the person files the dispute.

It's like how no one likes being stopped at the exits at Wal-Mart to have their receipts checked. But, that's a private company policy. Not much we can do about it.

What I do about it is keep walking. "No thanks", I say to the receipt checker.

 

[Hypnowheel]

Hey... jumped in late here, but I'm the creator of this video, and the Endorse Liberty Super PAC has recorded an original soundtrack for this video that they will be using to advertise in primary states. Just wanted you guys to know that a solution has been found. Meanwhile, there are still many mirrors of the original viewable on youtube. The message is still spreading. Thanks-

 

[speciallyblend]

Hey... jumped in late here, but I'm the creator of this video, and the Endorse Liberty Super PAC has recorded an original soundtrack for this video that they will be using to advertise in primary states. Just wanted you guys to know that a solution has been found. Meanwhile, there are still many mirrors of the original viewable on youtube. The message is still spreading. Thanks-

keep up the work, the llc that blacked you out should have the owner fired hehe, maybe he missed the kelly clarkson memo. I would of called you and said hey i am with bullet records , you think you could give us credit and we can help promote . If anything agree or not $$$$$$$$$$$$ for the bullet record ho's, but they can't think.

 

[iGGz]

)()(

 

[kylejack]

If you file a Fair Use dispute, Youtube will almost certainly restore the video. I've done it before. I talked about it in detail earlier in the thread.