tallship<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://liberdon.com/@marathon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@marathon</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://liberdon.com/@begsby" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@begsby</a></span></p><p>Hello my friend 🙂</p><p>That's actually not true, or at least, it is a far cry from what either the artist or producer wants.</p><p>I first started seeing this banner again a few weeks back, and discovered that it actually affects thousands of top platinum artists and producers (podcasts too) due to a contract dispute between Google and, IIRC, the performance rights society <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/sesac" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SESAC</a>.</p><p>It doesn't affect any <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/bmi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BMI</a> artists (such as myself) or those signed with <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/ascap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ASCAP</a> however, which is the lions share of royalty collecting agencies.</p><p>I actually kinda figured this would have been resolved by now but I guess not.</p><p>Still, it's very misleading because of the inference that it's the creator who made this decision, when that's only true when you consider that it's by virtue of them having signed with a performance rights rep that isn't buying Google's predatory bullshit.</p><p>On another note, I've been advised by legal reps on a few occasions to supercede the only two licenses that Google affords any uploader by physically placing my own title board at the beginning of any videos with my preferred CC-BY-SA /NC /ND/Etc., Creative Commons License if that's what I so choose for any artistic works that I create and upload to the Google.</p><p>Google's motto? <em><strong>Do EVIL</strong></em></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/copyright" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/licensing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#licensing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/monopoly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopoly</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/antitrust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fucking_scoundrels" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fucking_scoundrels</a></p><p>⛵</p><p>.</p>