Youtube Deleted Sound from 7-Hour Scientific Conference Recording Due to Music During Break



    It’s no secret that YouTube checks downloaded videos for possible copyright infringement by the recording’s audio sequence. An ordinary movie, where, for example, an assembly of a blowtorch with some kind of musical accompaniment is shown, can be deleted from the service, since the music is protected by copyright.

    It is clear that no one will manually check all videos, everything works in automatic mode. But verification algorithms sometimes give interesting results. For example, a couple of years ago, one of the YouTube users was not able to upload a video of wildlife photography on the service. Algorithms of the service recognized bird trills as copyrighted materials, and demanded to place a link to the site of the owner of the rights to sound in the video. Even the appeal did not give anything.

    NowIt became known about an equally interesting case . Scientists who hosted the 7-hour climate change science conference broadcast live on this conference. The video was also recorded and uploaded to the Web.


    This comic picture shows the same “pirate” who played music.

    Scientists were very surprised when no one heard the sound when watching a video on YouTube. Yes, the entire audio sequence was deleted by the moderators. It turned out that during lunch the sound engineer was playing some kind of music, the rights to which belonged to the record company. Result - the sound was completely muted.

    In principle, the organizers of the conference were lucky that they were not sued. For example, from the 4 mayors of Denmark for musicGangnam Style in a parody video claimed 42 thousand US dollars (plaintiff - Universal Music). Well, another office, Warner Bros., demanded 60 thousand US dollars from a provincial bar for an indoor recording that was 80 years old .

    Copyright holders are not asleep,% username%.

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