I was going to write a long piece on copyright, on the music industry and the artists' side of the equation, all of which have been on my mind lately for one reason or another, but until I have a tad more inspiration will have to shelve it for now.
I do not like "stealing" music, via torrents, or unregistered Russian websites, or anything, and do not sell anything on if I find myself compromised by doing so, ever, but if my CDs/DVDs are unplayable, or whatever, or my old LPs and cassettes are just too darned difficult to copy (VERY laboriously) on to my PC and hence music player for personal digestion, I think to myself "I already own this, albeit in a different format, so why not?" Then I read an odd licensing thing that you sometimes see when downloading something, and think that I'm fine with that....I know the artist(s) has/have already been part of the process, and hence (hopefully) got paid, so why not?
Enough, I'm not going to write that essay now.
Ironic that YT or Google deleted my previous video, which I've only just noticed when reading back though....... So have tried again.... (Edited 21st July 2018)
Some of the thoughts were sparked off by YouTube deleting a couple of my videos that featured "copyright" music that someone called "Johnny M" had objected to. Hey Johnny, was anyone fooled into thinking I worked with The Eurthymics or Lou Reed because I'd used them as a soundtrack to walking a pack of beagles through some woods?? No? I didn't think so. Was anyone deprived of any money because I used the tracks? No? I didn't think so.
Was anyone for the remotest second lead to believe that any of the artists I'd picked (because the tracks seemed to fit, and because I LIKED them) endorsed any aspect of the videos I'd posted? No, I really don't think so.
Did I claim anything other than "Fair use" of the tracks at any point? NO.
When artists make zillions of shekels out of a track, and it's been played millions of times "in public" then some of the reasoning for Johnny M to complain about my homemade "Entertainment" videos seems a little bit picky to me. Sorry, but I'm a bit cross.
Hidden messages?
Keep them.
YouTube would die if every single "Copyright" video was deleted, and that's a simple inarguable fact.
Oh, and I was going to go off on one about "The Emperor's New Clothes" and the Daft Punk album, but then that got me thinking about previous "Emperor's New Clothes" albums, like everything by Moby and, in a circular way that made me go look for the one track that always hit me the most. This is a live version of it, but the studio version is sublime.
Got to get a grip.
