| Also please make content id available to all rights holders. I made the mistake of signing up with an advertising company with content id access, simply because i was curious as to who was using my CC licensed music (non-commercial) in their videos. At first it all worked very well and the ad company compiled a list of videos using my songs some with millions of views which was very gratifying regardless of the (in some cases) liberal interpretation of the content licensing. Over the next few weeks however most of the video makers took down my music in response to the correspondence they were receiving from youtube viz. complying with compulsory advertising. I tried to contact some of the video makers via their channels and eventually succeeded in one case. The person in question forwarded me some of the content id compliance literature and to be fair it was very heavy handed. In their position I would likely have reacted as they did. As my music continued to be removed / taken-down I attempted successfully to extricate myself from the ad platform but the damage had been done and to my knowledge none of the content-creators who complied with the take-down notices are using my music now. Afterwards I attempted to sign up for content id myself and also contacted youtube's customer service but received no response in either case. Content id could be of huge benefit to music producers, like myself, if (a) it was available (!) and (b) it had more nuanced controls. I would be happy to pay an annual subs, for example, to identify my music on youtube so I could contact and possibly negotiate with a video-maker over the rights to use my music in a commercial setting. Forced advertising, which lets be honest is a pretty abhorrent concept anyway, simply does not work, at least in my experience. |