Watching videos/listening to music online

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'nother update;)

My parents (I live in the same house, I am an adult though) both said things along the lines of I was exaggerating and I should not even think about things like that so much…

They like that one song very much that I played. I have to play it for them a lot.
And I showed them two videos on YouTube on the computer… feeling a bit guilty…
But, actually, you know what, otherwise my parents would not have gotten to know the song along with the beautiful videos at all (or not until after I finally get the CD in November, hopefully, but not with the videos of course) so actually I am doing the artist a favor more than anything am I not???

A part of me thinks now it can’t be so bad. If my stuff was on YouTube I would love people to watch it. 😉 Especially in other countries where my music is not known and can’t even be bought, or at least not easily.

🙂 Kathrin
 
I wanna sorta bump this thread because I have a question…

So would telling a friend to go look up a song on Youtube be considered sinning? If so would it be considered a serious sin?
 
That would only be a sin if watching a video on youtube is a sin. Unless it’s pirated content, it isn’t.
 
The problem I guess is that most often we don’ know whether a song was put on YouTube with the composer’s permission or not…
But is it our responsibility to make sure?? And what if it is virtuously impossible?

Kathrin
 
By the way the artists promote their own stuff, I believe almost everything on youtube is legitimate. If you have reason to believe something is pirated, flag it as inappropriate and move on.
 
I would like to help out here a little bit. If you can play by Ear. There is no reason why you can not learn the tune. That is how people who play by Ear learn music. I wish I could. There is no reason to worry about Copyright since it will be your arrangement. Whoever takes a piece of music and rearranges. it to what they want. They then own the Copyright to that piece of music. The original Publisher or Artist no longer does. Copyright is usually international. You dont need to rearrange the whole thing just a few Bars or Notes.

AS far as watching and listening to music on the Web. I dont see how it is any different than watching T V .

I play the Accordion and I am planning on playing on You Tube. First of all I am not making any money as I would be playing in my Living room. The only way it would be a wrong to learn that tune I would have to put on the Screen Copyright Secured.

I hope this helps.

Antrim
 
Actually when I asked a priest about this he said something along the lines that it has been put there for us to enjoy the beautiful music. 🙂
 
benkim said:
I think if the posting of music videos or music on Youtube were illegal, It would either be much more difficult to actually post videos on Youtube or Youtube and other sites like it would have to be shut down. Plus, Youtube even allows full episodes of shows such as America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway to be posted and that’s been going on for quite some time. I always suspected that the site would have deleted those videos and suspended those accounts if posting episodes of such shows were actually illegal.

[edit] Oh and bands and artists already do post up music videos of their songs through their Youtube accounts. Many groups such as Daft Punk already have accounts through which they post music videos and live performances and such.
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Actually, many of the videos are now posted by the artist’s recording label, under the recording label account name, e.g. universalmusicgroup, which as I type has 5,670 videos posted on Youtube. Others are posted by the artist, usually with the artist’s name as the user ID. Many of these videos were already posted before artists and labels started getting into the act by individuals recording them off TV and posting them to Youtube. This seems to be how most unofficially uploaded videos got to Youtube. Around 2007, music companies saw the value of Youtube as a promotional tool and started to post official, legal, and generally better quality versions of the same videos.

Youtube does let anybody post, even if their video infringes on copyrights (there’s no way of knowing for certain before inspecting the video and contacting the copyright holder). The video will be deleted if somebody complains. Sometimes seemingly illict videos stay up for years, perhaps because nobody felt they were being hurt and did not bother to complain. Other times, they are eventually removed due to a copyright claim (and almost without exception other people’s unofficially recorded versions pop up in their place!). TV shows and movies people post seem to get much quicker responses from copyright holders than music videos, as the latter are more or less promotional products.
 
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