YouTube Banning PvP Videos With Copyrighted Music?
If you're a WoW fan and happen to be a PvP fanatic, watching PvP videos might be one of your favorite things to do. And I bet the following news won't sound good to you.
Ming, a wellknown rogue player of WoW, said in his blog that he received an email from Youtube, which said that one of his WoW PvP video on Youtube will be cut because he haven't obtained copyright permission of the video music.
Here is the original text:
I got this in my email today:
Video Disabled
A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Niar Xmas Pain. The audio content identified in your video is Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue.
Well, if YouTube really intends to do so, it will give a big blow to online video making because it indicates that a large number of gaming videos made by players will be banned. Currently gaming videos are widely spread over the Internet, particularly the videos made by veteran players. These videos have one thing in common: use copyrighted music without authorization. And as you know, even semi-professional video makers use copyrighted music without authorization. If recording companies are determined to prohibit unauthorized usage of their music, it will be a disaster for gamers: only a small amount of gaming videos will get released, and 99% of those already released gaming videos will disappear from the Internet. Don't you feel like the sky if falling?
And Ming also expressed his anger about that :
"If they are going to ban PvP videos with copyrighted music, they will have to remove 100% of the PVP videos out there. I understand it is not up to Youtube as they are merely doing it to avoid lawsuits. But I really believe the recording companies are shortsighted. I would have never heard of a lot of those artists if their songs weren't used in PVP videos. If anything PVP videos are free advertisements for them as most authors include a track list with full author/album with their major releases.Youtube is also getting a little too clean for my tastes. I miss the days when I can go on Youtube and find every music video or every episode of Naruto."
