Friday, 7 September 2018

The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions

The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn't stay up -- Youtube's Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds' worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html?source=Snapzu

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