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Over in the EU Parliament, they're getting ready to vote yet again on the absolutely terrible Copyright Directive, which has serious problems for the future of the internet, including Article 13's mandatory censorship filters and Article 11's link tax. Regrading the mandatory filters, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser, has written about a a very disturbing experiment he ran on YouTube, in which he kept having public domain music he had uploaded for his students get taken down by ContentID copyright claims.
[...] I decided to open a different YouTube account “Labeltest” to share additional excerpts of copyright-free music. I quickly received ContentID notifications for copyright-free music by Bartok, Schubert, Puccini and Wagner. Again and again, YouTube told me that I was violating the copyright of these long-dead composers, despite all of my uploads existing in the public domain. I appealed each of these decisions, explaining that 1) the composers of these works had been dead for more than 70 years, 2) the recordings were first published before 1963, and 3) these takedown request did not provide justification in their property rights under the German Copyright Act.
I only received more notices, this time about a recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, which was accompanied by the message: “Copyrighted content was found in your video. The claimant allows its content to be used in your YouTube video. However, advertisements may be displayed.” Once again, this was a mistaken notification. The recording was one by the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Lorin Maazel, which was released in 1961 and is therefore in the public domain. Seeking help, I emailed YouTube, but their reply, “[…] thank you for contacting Google Inc. Please note that due to the large number of enquiries, e-mails received at this e-mail address support-de@google.com cannot be read and acknowledged” was less than reassuring.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday September 05 2018, @07:30AM (7 children)
It's not too hard to figure out what job title to send it to.
I have 5,000 Facebook Friends. RLY. I was ignoring all their Friend Requests until it occurred to me that accepting them would be a good way to promote my writing.
Now I have 1,000 pr0n spammer friends. They're all flogging just one site. So I mailed a dead tree letter to FB "ATTN: Security, Porn Spammers".
I don't think my one letter is going to motivate Zuckerberg to lift a finger but I've been encouraging others to do the same.
And yes: this really _does_ work well to promote my writing. Every time I post a link to my own site I get 500 hits by the next morning.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @09:11AM (6 children)
and is there any income correlated with those 500 hits?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday September 05 2018, @09:44AM (4 children)
Alas, probably not.
Promotion != food.
Didn't say if anyone *liked* the posts, either, just that they'd been counted as "hits"
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @12:03PM (3 children)
There is no such thing as bad advertising
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @12:32PM (1 child)
when I asked whether this brought him any money, I was just wondering whether there are any financial rewards coming from his efforts.
obviously he is "winning" in other ways, since he still does it, and long-term the more people that know about him the better chances there may be financial rewards.
I just wanted to know if at this level of publicity it made a difference (and apparently it does not).
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 06 2018, @01:07AM
Link Popularity of which Google PageRank is a specific version is Transitive. If you link me and I link Rob Malda, then your link boosts Rob's link popularity.
Only a few technical articles are on my work site but a great many essays are on my personal site. My personal site links my work site.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday September 06 2018, @09:43PM
It may get exposure, but people die of exposure.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 06 2018, @01:04AM
Among my most deeply-held moral principles is that no one should have to pay to benefit from my hard-won experience.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]