YouTube Blocks Content ID Matches Worldwide Except In Everywhere

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 4:11 PM on May 1, 2009 in Commentary. 4 Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/LD

I got a very odd notice from YouTube. Apparently their robots finally detected my fair use of a copyrighted Universal Music Group song in one of my ridiculous convention videos. However, this was not cause to automatically take down the video, nor to automatically mute the audio. Instead…

As a result, your video is blocked everywhere except in these locations:
American Samoa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cuba, Fiji, France, Germany, Guam, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Mexico, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Spain, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu

So, wait, where is it blocked, then? Most of the countries I’m not seeing on there don’t have their own versions of YouTube. Um…China? Is it blocked in China? Oh, no, that’s all of YouTube, sorry.

I’m very confused. Oh well. I’d imagine that it’s still accessible everywhere regardless, now that I submitted the fair use dispute. This is the third time I’ve had to do that, and it’s kind of annoying. Why can’t I just submit the fair use claim when I upload the video? I know it’s got copyrighted music, I state that in the description, so let’s just cut to the chase, shall we?

    • http://p2p-heaven.22web.net/ TuNiSiE

      Pretty ironic. It seems like the brains behind YouTube (Google) uses too many bots.

    • http://plankhead.com Zacqary Adam Green

      Unfortunately, in this case, the dispute was actually unsuccessful. But because UMG's humans actually took a look at it, not only is it again blocked in whatever countries aren't on that list, but now there are ads being placed next to it.

      Links to download the song on Amazon and iTunes, I'm okay with. But irrelevant banner ads annoy me, and I feel very bad for the people watching it who don't have Adblock. Of course, in this case, because no DMCA takedown notice seems to have been issued, I can't file a counter-notice to get the suits off my back.

      Well, there's always Vimeo. Or my own server.

    • http://p2p-heaven.22web.net/ TuNiSiE

      Pretty ironic. It seems like the brains behind YouTube (Google) uses too many bots.

    • http://plankhead.com Zacqary Adam Green

      Unfortunately, in this case, the dispute was actually unsuccessful. But because UMG's humans actually took a look at it, not only is it again blocked in whatever countries aren't on that list, but now there are ads being placed next to it.

      Links to download the song on Amazon and iTunes, I'm okay with. But irrelevant banner ads annoy me, and I feel very bad for the people watching it who don't have Adblock. Of course, in this case, because no DMCA takedown notice seems to have been issued, I can't file a counter-notice to get the suits off my back.

      Well, there's always Vimeo. Or my own server.