False copyright claim on music videos from YouTube
A couple of music videos of popular artists have been removed from YouTube. Not the artists themselves removed them, but someone who claimed to have the copyrights on the videos. The person operates under the name iLCreation and got YouTube to remove music videos from Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna from the YouTube website.
YouTube’s policy is to instantly remove the video when someone else claims the copyrights and the copyright infringement. After that, YouTube will further investigate. Also, the channel Vevo that offers music videos of some of the largest record labels deals with the same problem as YouTube, as it also uses YouTube videos. Vevo and YouTube are working together to fix the problem as soon as possible.
It’s still not clear who is the person behind iLCreation and why he wanted the videos to be removed. The assertion that the copyrights of the videos belong to him is probably false. It looks like this was a prank instead of a serious copyright claim.
Now, most music videos can already be watched on YouTube and Vevo.
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Mortice
Another reason to rejoice people. It's amazing what a threat of? a multi million $ lawsuit does to people, especially when they realise how wrong they are. Youtube, CDBaby and Rumblefish finally saw the light after claiming copyright over my song. Nice try. Shame you didn't have a leg to stand on. Youtube need to sort their content matching software out as sooner or later, they will end up in court along with these other companies for falsely claiming copyright, and that day is fast approaching
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