Copyright Smuggling | The YouTube Copyright Metagame pt. 2 

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2009: _Broadcast yourself_ 2019: _Broadcast for our advertisers_

ssshhhhh don't tell people about my videogame music exploit

I used the content ID system to identify a song for a buddy. Couldn't find it on shazam, so uploaded the audio to youtube and within an hour got claimed.

2007: Broadcast Yourself 2012: Broadcast Yourself playing Minecraft 2018: Broadcast Jimmy Kimmel 2019:

"Do you support copyright smuggling" Emp: "The law requires that I answer no"

2016: IT'S NEVER OGRE 2019: *WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. GAMERS RISE UP.*

And finally we have the answer: "Why are the Simpsons green?"

Praise saint-kevin Macleod, bringer of peace amongs mortals

"240p quality isn't exactly ideal". Meanwhile, I'm sitting here watching this video in 144p.

Ah yes, Emp Lemon and Internet Historian unite once again.

I had negotiated commercial music usage with some musician in the past, years later all the videos we used his music in were claimed by a record company he signed with years later. Apparently they completely disregarded my agreement with the musician AND the artist himself never responded to us after that.

9:50 Oh so THAT'S how CinemaSins can get away with posting 25 minutes of movie footage, by assembling it from quick cuts.

Fun fact: Mr beast was copyright claimed for saying ‘we’re half way there’ and not even to the tune of the song

remember when those guys got copyright claimed for humming the halo theme in a mens bathroom ?

Just to add to how hard it is to not have music copyright claimed, I've had MY OWN PERFORMANCES of public domain classical music copyright claimed before

2009: broadcast yourself 2019: we live in a society

RU-vid reading how to piss off everyone ? Lmao they wrote it

Here's a fun one that Soundcloud mashup artists use to avoid their tracks being taken down; take the track and pitch it up or down by a decimal and stretch it out by a millisecond, it will sound exactly the same but the bots won't pick up the original songs

Ironically, the reason why you don't see the "you wouldn't steal a car" video is apparently because they used copyrighted music.

One time I got a copyright strike on a video of mine. Why? Because it included the state anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In case you didn't know, the USSR national anthem has been public domain for *DECADES.*

the fact that the pastebin says "rusty cage background music" is peak comedy

And now we wait for Emp’s word on Coppa here

Yeah I just whistle music that I want to use

Another deep tale from the internet: So i was looking for copyright free music content; and downloaded a bunch of songs. Turns out the guy who uploaded that content used the "free copyright" title as an excuse to make people download his actual copyright content and then claim it. So i made my coffe; scratched my cats; opened my lap top and added an undertale song instead.

TIP FOR MASKING INSTRUMENTALS: If you want to obfuscate the instrumental track you're using in order to bypass copyright, add an EQ to the track and clip out as much of the high and low frequencies as you feel comfortable with, then add some record static. I've found this to be fairly effective in multiple occasions, adding a small pitch shift doesn't hurt either!

I still get claims for 5 seconds and less of audio.

When people in an environment as public as the internet are finding ways to "smuggle" content into their videos, while the platform they are uploading to itself is trying to stop that, it's a clear sign that the current copyright system no longer works and needs to be thought over.

21:40 Line hits different now that Gilvasunner got killed by Nintendo

Never forget the Nintendo music copyright attack of 2019

This is even more meta especially with COPA

I've seen people compose their own original music only for it to get claimed.

Imagine using a song by Beethoven and it gets copyright claimed by a record label.

As a channel who’s been posted a lot of copyrighted content for years now, I guess I’ll pitch in and tell what I have learned: I’ve never been a fan of royalty-free music (hate it, in fact), so I’ve found some good alternative sources for copyright-free music: -Video game soundtracks (almost always claim free, rare exceptions) -Mixtapes (Most times claim free, if it’s not on Spotify, that’s a good sign) -Bootlegs/unreleased demos (most times copyright free, good luck finding them though) -Remixes/covers/fan recreations/instrumentals (Sometimes works, risky, works better for songs that aren’t super well known) -some songs slowed down actually sound better (especially if it’s a genre like Drill and Bass) -Some ‘self-released’ music isn’t copyrighted on RU-vid (such as music by Lil Ugly Mane) -Live versions of songs (Sometimes works if the live performance you use isn’t very well known, Peel sessions are also great for this) Generally, if a song posted on youtube is copyrighted, you can look at the bottom of the video description and you will often see a song listed (this doesn’t apply if you’re on an [Artist - Topic] channel, when a song gets copyrighted on RU-vid, those videos are automatically uploaded) Now, as I am a channel that deals in sports content, that’s an area I’ll also cover: NFL - at least 15-20 seconds and your video will be claimed within a week, if not, right away MLB/NBA/NHL - In my experience, if it’s not claimed right away it most likely won’t get claimed at all (be careful with NBA though, channels that post full highlights of games have been known to get terminated) College Football - At least 10 seconds and you’re claimed within 24 hours, case sensitive though, as multiple different companies own the broadcast rights to college football, so sometimes you may never get claimed. International sports (such as Soccer and Olympics) - Extremely case sensitive, don’t know much about this field as I do not post it often. Sports shows (such as Sports Center) - If you post full top 10 countdowns, your channel can get terminated (RIP Mespin & TheMagicMan), but if you include a short bit of a countdown, your video will most likely not get claimed. You almost never receive full-on copyright strikes for uploading sports broadcast clips. Unless, of course, you upload the full broadcasts.

10:06 literally every one of my videos

Wow, Copyright Deadlock is the coolest and most petty thing. I love the idea of cramming in so many copyrighted content so nobody gets the money. I'm now going to do this in all my videos, I was never planning to make a profit off them anyways, I just want them to be watched. :D thanks Emp

"Just like driving 5 miles over the speed limit..." Texans: Those are rookie numbers!

That Joker impression was still better than Onision.

I've once heard. From the lowest of low. A method that I have realized how broke back mountain the system is..... *Copyright claiming your own videos so they can't steal all ya money.*

The image by image technique is actually really neat, the first time I watched your wwe video I thought it was just an artistic choice

As a musician, I like to just mark my stuff as "yes, you can use it" Most important part to me is that someone's hearing it.

We are all clowns, and we live in a society

Wait a minute, Emp got claimed for saying "who lives in a pineapple under the sea."

Lmfao the silent shot of the Star Wars theme video with "film scores are also at risk of this" had me in stitches

If a game soundtrack is copyrighted, then theres a good chance that the game is copyrighted too because gameplays would get copyrighted claimed because of the music being played in the background of the game

Every RU-vidr has an audience. I feel like EmpLemons audience is RU-vidrs.

EmpLemon is like drug. You want more, and when you can get some, you're first there.

"so i owe royalties to the rap group?" LMAOing at the implication that any aspect of copyright law or yt's claim system benefits the actual artists of any of these works. it's the faceless labels and monolithic corporations who seize ownership of their art that are causing all this exhausting bullshit (i mean, literally, they're the ones with the resources to pay lobbyists to make sure copyright law gets as fubar as it is in the first place)

13:56 - I got hit with the same thing for sampling the audio of a NASA probe beeping. Some jackass used it in a song so they claim they own it now.

It’s boutta get so much worse here on RU-vid.

Another example of just how insidious the music copyright is on RU-vid: Pyrocynical had an outro song by Whitewoods, a vaporwave internet group who samples copyrighted music to make their vaporwave music. Sony claimed the song and all 500+ of his videos with 15 seconds of the music at the end got claimed, making his entire channel copyrighted. If you're gonna be a smuggler you have to keep in mind variety is dangerous (more chances of getting copyrighted) but so is uniformity - using the same thing in all of your videos makes it so if that gets detected, now you have multiple copyrights to worry about.

The copyright deadlock still makes me smile on the inside.

I did a Kingdom Hearts lets play, on the first episode, I got copyright striked by disney for making a joke using the disney theme, I didn’t even steal it, I sung it myself because I am crap at editing. After that, I gave up on being a RU-vidr because I didn’t want to deal with it or possibly get sued

Then coppa comes along and makes this look like a joke

"click off this add and I'll make the FTC fine you 42,000$" I'm here waiting for him to make a whole video rant about the COPPA situation....

20:53 and that's why you guys hear so much Undertale, Pokemon, Mario and Nintendo songs on YT videos and I don't mind at all because they are a jam!

What a fucking outstanding creator Creates high quality documentaries on interesting subjects ✔ Is entertaining in general ✔ Cares about other creators ✔ Cares about the platform ✔ Quality over quantity ✔ Is one of the wisest creators on the website? ✔ Has understanding of meme culture and internet culture in general ✔ Is badass ✔ Thank you for the content you have given us. Much appreciated, and is really getting me through this quarantine

Osamu Sato's original LSD soundtrack got claimed by another random artist.

This wouldn’t be a EmpLemon video without a Anthony Fantano reference

9:45 That explains why you did it in that way. Not gonna lie, that's my favorite part of the Monday Night Raw video, and hearing the audio from the original footage but done in a step-by-step collage made me take in the scene with some degree of imagination, and it was an interesting experience, making it my favorite part of the whole video. Screw those fartknockers for forcing you to do it that way, though.

20:41 THERE I AM GARY THERE I AM

The Arist Niel Ciceraga, had to take the song "When he died" taken out of the Album Spirit Phone's upload on youtube, because it sounds similar another song, even though its his own unqiue creation and has been sincearound 2012. Its pretty bad if a song can just get removed because some more popular person used a similar tempo or something and claimed you stole it

"in episode 3, we look at why things are the way the way they are" spoiler alert: its money

22:48 I was not expecting that smash bros documentary clip, you are truly a man of culture.

I literally just tried to upload a funeral video for my Mom’s friend the other day only for it to get hit with this garbage. Somebody literally has a auto claim system, for a public domain song, set up to try and make money off military vets passing away. I hate this mess.

Great video emp but you forgot the best way of smuggling music past content ID. Mashups, key and BPM matched. Video game music tends to make the best matches because they're nearly all instrumentals.

That engineer depiction isn’t accurate, you forgot the 4 other engineers surrounded by pyros

As a music nerd, Emp has indeed gained my respect for bringing up Casiopea.

14:50 >corrupting a song to that extent defeats the purpose 2011 called, they say otherwise

isn't that the guy who only says "downward spiral", like a stroke victim, in real life?

i payed for my first car with megalovania

8:20 I really like the way the music continues from the reaction video into the background of yours

For my videos I began using my own custom-made 8-bit chiptune remixes of songs arranged in FL Studio, but sadly it's not entirely effective: one of my LEGO tutorials got claimed because of chiptune covers of '90s grunge songs in the background - and worse, another video got claimed for using a chiptune remix of a public domain classical song from the 19th century. For the latter copyright claim, RU-vid said my 8-but cover of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" belonged to Disney, so I had to provide links to the Wikipedia article about the song being in the public domain and how the composer wrote it well over a century ago. I eventually got the video restored with the claim removed after a week or so. But anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing my 8-bit chiptune remix of the Downward Spiral theme in your next video!

“Most game creators don’t care to copyright claim their music* *cries in three houses*

I’m amazed “fair use” was only mentioned twice, and one of those in the Jim Sterling clip.

I feel bad everytime emplemon says that nobody watches ytp maybe they are not as big as they used to be, but at least in my university I see guys from time to time watching ytp on their phones and laptops and I still search for them regularly

*Sly Cooper 5: Sly Cooper Helps His Son With His RU-vid Channel*

I personally recommend copyright claiming your own videos. That way, if any company claims it, they'll still have to share 50% of the revenue. Plus, if you have several accounts, you can effectively funnel 99% of all the revenue towards yourself. The only way for that to stop being a viable option would be if RU-vid acknowledged the inherently flawed system and fixed it.

2009: Broadcast Yourself 2019: Lose Yourself

20:32 I love how your examples of obscure music are pretty much in my music taste homeground. Not a fan of Cassiopea or Spin, but that kind of obscure prog is exactly what I listen to

“Don’t get hit” I didn’t know you were into melee!

This really makes me want a Never Ever on SiIvagunner

I got hit with a copyright claim when i showed an instagram story of a single i found at a thrift store of 1999. Copyright laws are absurd at this point.

"... Barbaricly punished by the wrath of angry gamers." This remains my favourite comedic quote of Emp.

Next on EmpLemon: How to avoid Copyright by using D O W N W A R D S P I R A L, the complete guide

The downward spiral leads to the abyss of infinite darkness.

The Downward Spiral has become one of the best Memes and you Dance it More expertly then any werewolf, Howlers could have learned a thing from you.

Another trick to avoiding claims on copyrighted music is to switch the left and right audio channels and/or invert the wave form. Doing so will generally have minimal audible distortion (except with songs that use heavy panning) while also creating audio that doesn't match up in a way that the content ID system can recognize very well. Maybe they've gotten smarter about that, but it used to work pretty well from what I hear.

RU-vid:Is this kids content? Person:I am playing a gory shooting video game. RU-vid:Video game? Kids like video games. Banned.

THE JOKER DOESN'T SAY "RIDDLE ME THIS" THAT'S THE RIDDLER REEEEEEEEEEE

I have to say this is my favorite RU-vid channel. The only commentary videos I have no problem going back and rewatching every now and again.

Your narrations are by far some of the most enjoyable on YT and this series is gooooooood stuff.

Why even try to avoid Copyright detection when in a month or 2 we will get fined $45,000 because our videos have color in them?

*Gonna tell my kids about Broadcast yourself*

21:15 Oh man, that one aged well huh? Still the most infuriating shit.

Copyright smugglers be like: *I'll steal it. No one will ever know!*

I got claimed for playing a song too like the original on piano that the content id system thought it was a reupload...

Emp: * uploads this * Disney: (looking quickly to viacom) *HE IS HERE*

thank you so much for putting music in a pastebin

I feel blessed knowing that the chad video game soundtracks are mostly claim-proof, while the virgin mainstream pop music isn’t.