by Hermesacat » Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:18 am
Re. Emma's comment, the reason my Mazzy Star Bridge School Benefit video upload got forcibly removed from yt last summer seems to have had to do with me being caught in the middle between competing copyright claimants. It was a company owned by Neil Young - easy to figure that out as his nickname's part of the company's name - that made the complaint against me, & had the video taken down after it had been up 1.5 years already, & was generating ad revenue for other copyright holders
The current "official" video now findable on yt, as Emma mentions, was uploaded by the Music Vault, a.k.a. Wolfgang's Music Vault. It's their site where I first found the video online. I DL-ed it from there & re-upped it to yt. But it's not them that complained. When I first upped it some years back, youtube's computers scanned it, as they do nowadays, & ascertained who the copyright holders were, & ads beyond my control started to appear on the video that benefitted me not at all (which is fine by me) but generated ad revenue for copyright holders, which presumably included the band.
I get to see a list of the copyright holders, though the lists can be confusing as they often use ultra-short abbreviations I don't understand instead of full company names. I never see "Roback/Sandoval" listed, but I'm sure that's only because an intermediary company representing them collects revenue on their behalf. Anyway, I'm pretty sure Wolfgang's Vault or Music Vault was listed as one of the copyright holders from the start, which meant they were happy enough with my uploading their video to tolerate its presence on yt & enjoy ad revenue from it, instead of having it taken down.
I think it was on Wolfgang's site I read that they had acquired rights to the video from Bill Graham's co.
Bill Graham was the (now deceased) well known concert promoter, who evidently promoted Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit, & claimed rights to the video shot of the show, apparently.
Similarly, with my re-upload of the same video (after Neil Young's employees had the first one taken down), the one that's up now at my secondary yt channel, "The Music Vault" is shown as one of the copyright holders.
So, even though they have their own "official" upload of the video at yt now, they're still happy to tolerate mine & derive ad revenue from it.
Neil Young's gang's the problem, apparently. I don't see anything in the copyright holders list that suggests Neil's co. is among them. So, maybe the other copyright holders (including The Music Vault) have the upper hand, legally, but Neil's company may not be in agreement, & is griping, & when someone at that co. stumbled upon my Bridge School upload they may have decided to snipe at me from the sidelines, since I'm just an ordinary uploader-fan with no copyright to claim, & am easy to take down.
Supporting my theory The Music Vault & Neil are in disagreement over copyright is that in The Music Vault's Official upload,their video description mentions the date & place of the show. But conspicuous by its absence is any mention the set was part of Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit. There's no mention of that "N" word or of the Bridge School Benefit. Perhaps that's odd, unless there's bad blood there, which I suspect there is, & that I got caught in the middle of it.