Re: webnet-list Digest, Vol 21, Issue 12: Music Copywrite

Jenne Mowry wrote:
> Susan,
>
> I'm glad you asked this question as it's recently come up for us as
> well. We posted videos on YouTube, and some had the music erased. (My
> student assistant found out that Warner owns YouTube and will block any
> Warner-owned music.) I was also unable to post these videos on Facebook,
> but the ones where I used 15 second snippets from a very old Cal
> Marching Band CD went up just fine.

To be accurate, Google owns YouTube, and Google has deals with Warner
and some other studios which involve either muting music or placing ads
on your video if it is detected as having copyrighted audio content
belonging to the studios.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_at_LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/lscr/>
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