YOUTUBE BLOCKING Rand Paul's Presidential Annoucement

...thanks to a copyright claim from Warner Music Group, as Vox's Andrew Prokop spotted.
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This isn't uncommon for YouTube, really, and in this day and age, companies are quick to swoop in and request something be taken down if they feel some of their property or items are being used. Viacom pulls this kind of stuff all the time. Had these claims not been made, pretty certain YouTube would allow it, so the title is sort of deceptive. It's less YouTube blocking it and more a company claiming copyright, which would keep the video off until the owner of the video settles the claim. Happened to me.
 
It's probably just their automatic bot that recognized the music video.
 
What the hell? I'm glad this is being covered by Wapo and not just some "conspiracy theory" site. I'm not sure from reading this if its YouTube per se or someone abusing YouTube's safe harbor "If you claim it's copyrighted will take it down to be safe" provision. We really need to get away from being so dependent on YouTube. I'm glad the campaign is letting people upload endorsement videos to its servers.
 
Washington Post says, "Rand Paul entered and left to the song, "Shuttin' Detroit Down," but actually at the end, the music playing was "Frankenstein", The same song played after Rand's CPAC speech. I remember though, that you only heard that song if you watched it live. It was later edited out of every video of the speech on youtube, and CSpan's video.
 
jmdrake said:
But I see videos of copyrighted music up their all the time. That bot must be very selective.
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Depends on many variables: who uploads it? If it's just lyrics of songs, that's different since it's not the actual music video. Also depends on whether something is public domain yet or the company making the claim. Try uploading anything Saturday Night Live related to YouTube that wouldn't be allowed by NBC and YouTube would block it before the video even got uploaded- I've tried it. Doesn't work. Also depends on the length of the video and whose responsible for it. Chances are if it's some obscure or lesser known person or band, YouTube would be less likely to intervene or a company wouldn't be as likely to make a copyright claim. I personally just blame Google acquiring YouTube, as that's what kicked off the whole copyright claim trend.
 
Mr.NoSmile said:
This isn't uncommon for YouTube, really, and in this day and age, companies are quick to swoop in and request something be taken down if they feel some of their property or items are being used. Viacom pulls this kind of stuff all the time. Had these claims not been made, pretty certain YouTube would allow it, so the title is sort of deceptive. It's less YouTube blocking it and more a company claiming copyright, which would keep the video off until the owner of the video settles the claim. Happened to me.
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actually, if you sort of understand how it happens, youtube did the blocking since it detected a song in the background noise. that is how I understand it.
 
I'm listening on CSPAN now, I hear metallica enter sandman.... It is beyond ridiculous that background music is being claimed as copyright infringement and acted upon.
 
This works to our advantage. This is important news.... which is being withheld from the public. Only making people more anxious/interested in viewing it. Artificially creating scarcity, if you will. High demand, with a low supply. It also plays very well into the campaign's narative of working outside of the Washington machine. Even if that isn't necessarily the reason why it's truly blocked by Youtube.

Furthermore, as you can tell from this article, this generates additional headlines for Rand Paul, and in effect, additional attention.

And with time, the rights will be cleared and the video will be back up.

I like it.
 
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thoughtomator said:
anudder coinkydink... that never seems to happen to anyone else
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Err...happened to the whole bloody DNC in 2012.

http://www.wired.com/2012/09/youtube-flags-democrats-convention-video-on-copyright-grounds/

The most likely culprit is YouTube’s pre-emptive content filters, which allow large media companies to upload content they claim to own and automatically block videos that an algorithm decides matches their own.
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So not really an isolated incident.
 
jbauer said:
im watching it right now????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGfzoPQACPY
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This link works for me. It does sound like they muted the music way down though - so you can barely recognize what it is.
As I said in my post above, the same song was played after Rand's CPAC speech, but if you watch any video of CPAC, the music is edited out. Probably some standard precaution they have to take to avoid legal issues.
 
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How dare YouTube exercise its freedom in controlling content on their own website. This is what freedom tastes like Paulites.
 
56ktarget said:
How dare YouTube exercise its freedom in controlling content on their own website. This is what freedom tastes like Paulites.
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Last I checked no one was talking about legal actions against Google for this...
 
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