Copyright On YouTube

So David Lloyd is leaving Virgin (soon to be Absolute) Radio today, and in the time honoured fashion, we made a leaving video.

The video was edited to a couple of copyright songs - It's Getting Better by Mama Cass and We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.

I uploaded the video to YouTube.

Now I'm obviously breaking rules here. Those aren't my songs to go sharing. YouTube has a "Content Identification Program" which obviously looked at the audio at recognised it as being owned by "UMG" (I take this to be Universal Music Group). Before the video had even been processed, an email had pinged back to me informing me of this.

Yet UMG's policy is to allow the audio to remain up, but in return it has to feature advertising on that YouTube page, and allow the owner access to the logs of that title.

What a sensible proposal. Now I'm aware that at some time in the future they might change their mind and pull "my" video. But that does seem to be a relatively forward thinking way of doing things. And it's not often that you can say that about record companies.

Anyway, that's alll a long way around of giving me a reason to embed the video here.

(Video shot largely by Paul Sylvester and edited by me. It could be better in places, but it's still quite fun I think, and it worked a treat).