Video dialogue as requested for online translation:
If you’re a subscriber following my Bach Prelude and Fugue series, you might be wondering why in Bach’s Prelude and Fugue No.3 book 2, I’m wearing a band on my left wrist with my name on it.
To explain:
A number of subscribers have told me they find videos of playing hands filmed from above, helpful to them in the pieces they are studying.
So, with this in mind, I try to make overhead keyboard videos of the pieces subscribers have requested, such as the Bach Prelude and Fugues.
For this type of video showing hands only, playing from above, I have more difficultly getting copyright claims released. My counterclaims are often rejected by the claimant and sometimes my videos get blocked outright and many are currently monetized by others.
Due to the shear quantity of false copyright claims I receive, I brought up this matter in a meeting with my YouTube Partner Manager at Google Thailand and also messaged YouTube Creator Support, available to channels with more than 100,000 subscribers. Both said essentially the same thing regarding copyright claims:
I quote:
I appreciate the information you have shared. I know how passionate you are with what you do and understand where you’re coming from. Unfortunately, we cannot take any action on behalf of the claimant or the creator.
The only option we have is to really dispute the claim and appeal to the decision the claimant made.
So, the idea occurred to me to try an ID wrist band – experimentally – to see if it makes any difference in the Content ID dispute process.
I hope you the viewer won’t find the wristband annoying but see it for what it is - just an experiment by a self-recording musician trying to find a way through and around all these false copyright claims from major labels in order to continue to make and share with you the overhead keyboard videos you have requested.
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