Justice Retro Hunter
New member
Hey Everyone, I'm a music producer, and I had a really annoying issue with YouTube a couple years back.
I uploaded This Instrumental 3 years ago and i never filed a copyright with the copyright office (i never thought i had to)
and of course when it started getting big, some guy ripped it, made a song to it, and copy-wrote the song with "CD Baby."
I was struck down with a copyright notice (content ID dispute) from CD Baby, saying my content belonged to a 3rd party (the guy who stole my music).
at the time i was really ignorant about copyright law, so i choose not to dispute it, for fear of my song being taken down, or my account being banned, since i had no definitive proof.
So i left it alone for all these years, but now i recently released a song with a large independent artist, and i want to upload the instrumental to YouTube. I want to prevent the same situation which happened with the first video, so can anyone tell me what i need to do in order to prevent folks from filing copyright notices on my beat, AND prevent content ID disputes with the artist?
I uploaded This Instrumental 3 years ago and i never filed a copyright with the copyright office (i never thought i had to)
and of course when it started getting big, some guy ripped it, made a song to it, and copy-wrote the song with "CD Baby."
I was struck down with a copyright notice (content ID dispute) from CD Baby, saying my content belonged to a 3rd party (the guy who stole my music).
at the time i was really ignorant about copyright law, so i choose not to dispute it, for fear of my song being taken down, or my account being banned, since i had no definitive proof.
So i left it alone for all these years, but now i recently released a song with a large independent artist, and i want to upload the instrumental to YouTube. I want to prevent the same situation which happened with the first video, so can anyone tell me what i need to do in order to prevent folks from filing copyright notices on my beat, AND prevent content ID disputes with the artist?