Rumblefish-YouTube Update

Goodmorning folks,

After about 12 hours of blogging, searching and emailing yesterday we have some new updates on the Rumblefish- YouTube situation:

The song by the Psalters that was flagged as a violation on our video used public domain content in the audio collage part of their track.

Rumblefish has a great deal of public domain content in their catalogue.

So when the computers do automatic content ID match searches, this public domain content gets flagged as a violation. (we don't know whether the computers that do the flagging belong to YouTube or Rumblefish)

At the end of the day, literally, we found a post on a forum that explains this and gives a phone number and contact person at Rumblefish. It was after business hours in their time zone and all we got was voicemail. So we will give them a call during business hours during the business week to make sure they have a chance to fix this without dispute.

The other option open to us is disputing their claim - but this is a dangerous move for a little guy without a lot of money or clout. If they had issued a DCMA takedown notice instead we would have had the ability to issue a counter notice. As it is right now, we either take the risky step of disputing the content ID match, let them use our content for advertising, or hope that the phone call works.

BUT - even if they do rescind the content ID match this is not the end of the story. Because we had the time and resources to spend 12 hours trying to protect our rights as artists. A lot of artists are not that technical or web savvy and they are the ones that will get taken advantage of by this sort of error.

This will be the last post on this blog about the Rumblefish-Youtube incident. We use this Haint's Stuff bloblog for nice happy stuff about art.
We are moving this discussion to http://cybertrips.blogspot.com/ This is an old blog that told about our experiences on the internet when we were first getting started. We havent posted to it in months, but it seems like a better place for this issue than here.

Back to work. We will be back tomorrow posting pictures of the latest wip - made with repurposed matchboxes.

Peace and love

Haint

CORRECTION: In yesterday's post I said that the viewcount for that video had reached 300. That was an error - it had reached 150 - I misread the stats for a similar video on the analysis report - Littia