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"It’s hardly a secret that upload filters don’t work well. Back in 2017, Felix
Reda, then Shadow Rapporteur on the EU Copyright Directive in the European
Parliament, put together a representative sample of the many different ways in
which filters fail. A recent series of tweets by Markus Pössel, Senior Outreach
Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, exposes rather well the
key issues, which have not improved since then.
Facebook muted 41 seconds of a video he uploaded to Facebook because Universal
Music Group (UMG) claimed to own the copyright for some of the audio that was
played. Since the music in question came from Bach’s
Well-Tempered Clavier,
and Bach died in 1750, there’s obviously no copyright claim on the music
itself, which is definitely in the public domain. Instead, it seems, the claim
was for the performance of this public domain music, which UMG says was played
by Keith Jarrett, a jazz and classical pianist, and noted interpreter of Bach.
Except that it wasn’t, as Pössel explains:
Either I am flattered that a Bach piece that I recorded with my own ten
fingers on my digital keyboard sounds just like when Keith Jarrett is
playing it. Or be annoyed by the fact that @UMG is again falsely claiming
music on Facebook that they definitely do not own the copyright to.
This underlines the fact that upload filters may recognize the music – that’s
not hard – but they are terrible at recognizing the performer of that music."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
