World's most popular YouTube stream-ripping site sued by music labels over copyright infringement

[captaincranky]

Anything can be used in it's entirety for educational and public discussion purposes without any copyright infringement.

And what you can get away with calling, "educational purposes", is another matter altogether.

 

[Bigtruckseries]

Just make your own music, it's extremely simple these days and anyone can do it.

When I shoot LIVE VIDEO, I want people to be able to experience the fun - as if they were there. If I replace the audio track, it's NOT as interesting.

 

[captaincranky]

One of my car show videos got hit with like 10 copyright violations due to ambient music. YouTube needs to make ambient music fair use - cause it is.

Was this music which was actually playing in the background, which you didn't add into the soundtrack? If so, that's pretty harsh.

 

[Bigtruckseries]

Was this music which was actually playing in the background, which you didn't add into the soundtrack? If so, that's pretty harsh.

Yes. It was ambient music in the background being played by a DJ .

Impossible to avoid it getting into the track

 

[Techstar]

When I shoot LIVE VIDEO, I want people to be able to experience the fun - as if they were there. If I replace the audio track, it's NOT as interesting.

Lean to do audio ducking and leave the original track there and add your own music to it. It's the same thing whether you use your music or someone else's.

 

[captaincranky]

Yes. It was ambient music in the background being played by a DJ .

Impossible to avoid it getting into the track

Lean to do audio ducking and leave the original track there and add your own music to it. It's the same thing whether you use your music or someone else's.

Well, BTS has constantly brought it to our attention, that he believes the iPhone is the ideal tool for event coverage, both in audio and video aspects.

Unfortunately, that really isn't the case. Not only has the current iPhone done away with the standard headphone jack, but it never had either one of these:

The 1st, and most important being the standard microphone XLR connector, (left), the other being a 1/4" plug, which is commonly used as an adapter to mate XLR with the more prevalent 1/4" "phone plug".

Even the least expensive standard microphones are available with pickup patterns approaching uni-directional.

@Bigtruckseries I feel your pain with aggravations such as the one you've encountered with the copyright violations.

However, you have to take into account, any paid entry event can simply be tagged as "copyrighted in its entirety", by those promoting/hosting the event. Obviously this is more prevalent with stage and theater productions, but it can extend to something as seemingly public as a car show. IMO, they tagged you with the music violation, because it was the easiest and most convenient "loophole" to exploit.

I'm suggesting you either take more sophisticated equipment to cover these events, and/or try and coerce some rinky-dink local (Read "community") newspaper to provide you with a press pass, in return for a little blurb and a few stills of the event.

And yes, I realize the more sophisticated the equipment you carry into an event, the more scrutiny it will cause you to be subjected.

Still, the reality is, using a "real camera", and a decent directional mic will resolve the ambient sound issue, while still allowing you to do your voice over. What other repercussions it might cause, I have no idea.

Truth be told, you don't have to use the sound track from the camera. Another alternative might be to simply do a "voice over" at home. You just grab some stills of the placards next to the vehicles, plus any brochures you can lay your hands on , and use that information for your, (to be added later), narrative

 

[Wendy Oltman]

How is this infringing anything when it’s just a tool? I have a feeling that the record labels will loose. Also, if somehow it get banned, than what next, on the search keyword for 'youtube to mp3' users will click on the second Google option that's all.

 

[captaincranky]

How is this infringing anything when it’s just a tool? I have a feeling that the record labels will loose. Also, if somehow it get banned, than what next, on the search keyword for 'youtube to mp3' users will click on the second Google option that's all.

Well, the RIAA & MPAA have long insisted that merely changing format is infringing, and you're supposed to buy the same product in the new format, over and over again. Right, wrong, equitable, or even simple fairness doesn't enter into their thought process and adjenda. The frightening part is, they've been steadily gaining traction with government officials pushing that viewpoint, with likely more than a few campaign contributions to grease the wheels of progress on their behalf.

And I kind of figure if you're too incompetent, too lazy, or too stupid, to rip your own material to a different medium, then maybe the entertainment industry is just slaughtering the weak and the lame of the herd.

I don't want anything.to do with Apple. I don't want a half dozen of their CPU sucking processes running on any of my Windows PCs. The fact that Windows Media Center will rip to any format you like, with great ease and speed, tells me the people who are whimpering about this, are simply too internet addicted for their own good.

CD ripping software has been available for at minimum, two decades.

And the fact M$ has taken Media Center out from Win 8 and above, tells me they think they're dealing with helpless, lazy imbeciles, with wallets ripe for the plucking, as well.

Maybe people should commiserate with Cortana about this issue. Perhaps she'll relay your frustration back to M$..

 

[Bigtruckseries]

The iPHONE 7 Plus 256GB is a FANTASTIC event capture device so long as you don't need microphones to capture speech and don't mind the ambience.