Last Thursday I went to the most excellent Children In Need Rocks The Royal Albert Hall concert and carried on my usual habit of videoing some of the concert for fans to enjoy on YouTube. By this morning I had over 120,000 views of my videos and apart from the usual flame wars in one particular video's comments the fans were happy and grateful.
This afternoon a notice appeared against my recording of Cheryl Cole's Fight For This Love telling me it was no longer available due to a copyright breach.
Video ID: sdnl4C8a-98
Removed due to a copyright claim by IFPI on 16 November 2009
Moreover my account was no longer in good standing, 2 more strikes and I could be out! Of course there is a laughable side to this in that when Cheryl performed the same song "live" on X Factor she announced in advance that she would be performing to a pre-recorded vocal. I didn't watch my video in any great detail as it was a bit out of focus and I missed the beginning but several comments noted that this appeared to be far from a live performance. From what I know about YouTube's AudioID the soundtrack must have flagged up as an exact match to the original studio recording. Rumbled by themselves LOL etc!
However this does pose a danger to me if I ever happen to record 2 more performances using a pre-recorded music track as YouTube say "Accumulation of three strikes may result in the termination of your account."
Proper live performers seem to have no difficulties with my many recordings of their performances. Two examples. Editors' official forum asked me if I would be kind enough to let them link to my recordings of their concert at Fabric despite it being their copyright. The great Mike Tobin manager of Stackridge contacted me and asked if I could make my Glastonbury 2008 recordings available to the fans with reasonable costs paid to me, I made them available on the understanding a donation would be made to Air Ambulance.
Even megabuck stars like Coldplay, U2 and The Killers have given me no grief whatsoever for videos I have posted. In fact I posted an ENTIRE Killers concert to YouTube 4 months before it was released on DVD. I suppose I should have expected the first grief to come from the record company of an artist associated with X Factor.
p.s. Cheryl I love you! Your performance here, while it lasts on YouTube, was a very pleasant surprise. Shame your record company are threatening my sharing of live music with fans on YouTube
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