Naudo is a guitarist whose instrumental covers were very popular had his account deleted. UMG seems to do ad overlays on videos of cover songs which is a much nicer, less hurtful thing to do. Once Warner bitches to Youtube about a video, youtube says “Uncle” by flagging, maybe deleting your account. It appears that songs administered by Warner it seems are the most dangerous to use. Also – the more popular you become, the more of a target you become as publishers search their own tunes and report to Youtube on who to axe. What really sucks the big one is that Youtube is totally inconsistent in how they deal with offenders. Youtube – for the geniuses you are, how could you be so moronic to have set up a website where copyright infringement is so easy, and then hurt users so badly in a seemingly random, inconsistent fashion? YOU or I could be singled out, have videos removed and once you have an account in “bad standing” and get 3 offenses, your account is deleted. It does not matter if many many other people play the same cover song as you on Youtube. Fans means ticket sales to them, so part of my presentation for concerts is based on my youtube presence. Glowing comments that show concert promoters that I have fans. It’s like the ultimate targeted mailing list for an artist gets destroyed. I have 11 thousand people who have subscribed to my channel, and I’d lose contact with them. This really would suck for me if it happens. That’s all videos, comments, messages, friends and subscribers gone all at once. Several musicians have had their entire accounts from Youtube deleted after achieving a high profile through popular videos of cover songs. Youtube Account Deletion – It’s Happening More Than Ever! So if you do ANY cover tunes AT ALL – you better keep reading and get real with yourself about where it is all heading. I may even pay for a tune or two – more to come in another blog post.)
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(EMI told me a one year license for one tune is about $2500. However when they find my Billie Jean, they flip out! Few people start out by caring about Adam’s or anyone’s originals – relatively speaking. These infringing videos are critical to my career, as you can see. They find me via the tune connection, and like magic, I have new fans. My “new fan” traffic comes from people searching the tune titles – not me, as far as I can tell. Grow up if you wnat to argue or think otherwise! Does not matter if you did it for fun and not for money, does not matter if it is YOU playing the song. Yep, if you are not paying for a license, it is copyright infringement. All of my cover tunes on Youtube – and anyone’s cover tunes on Youtube are flat out, no questions asked copyright infringement. Hence, cover tunes are helping me immensely!īy the Way, Youtube is one HUGE Copyright Infringement Platform The Beatles, Stones and Led Zeppelin were cover bands which wove their own material in. You might not search for a new artist, especially if you have never heard of them. All the marketing, customer base, etc is from youtube.Ĭover tunes help musicians “get out there”. As you may know, I released a Stevie Wonder instructional guitar DVD teaching the arrangements I play on Youtube. In my case my 2 most popular videos are Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Many musicians have gotten a boost from this incredibly genius, earthshaking (but really friggin’ stupid) website called Youtube. I think it has helped countless musicians presents themselves to fans, concert promoters, and sell CD’s and DVD’s, book workshops and who knows what else. My entire fingerstyle guitar career has materialized through my youtube videos and presence – and I am not the only guy who can say this. No longer is a record company or magazine review needed to get in front of people’s eyeballs – all you need is a self produced video and an internet connection to reach fans worldwide. Why, you ask? Read on….Īs you probably know, Youtube is critical for musicians at this point in time. something that needed to be addressed right away…danger Will Robinson, danger!!! I spent this last 48 hours in front of the computer – namely re-encoding and uploading videos to a new channel on Youtube. I did get some practicing in, but I had an issue that became what I call “pants on fire” i.e. Normally I would have spent the last 48 hours practicing my tail off for the show. I am sitting in NYC’s Laguardia Airport on the way to the Bermuda Guitar Festival.
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Feel free to ask questions in the comment section! – AR UPDATE: It’s now 2017, but I wrote this in 2010.
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