Then they claim they have a compulsory license except for one tiny detail–they don’t have to pay you! So even if you have taken the time to file your song with YouTube’s CMS and Content ID so they actually know who you are, if you haven’t registered with the Copyright Office it doesn’t matter. Plus even if you do register, it takes the Copyright Office a year to approve or deny your registration.īut–but–if the DiMA company claims they can’t find you in the Copyright Office records, they can file that NOI with the Copyright Office. The loophole is that they only have to look for the copyright owner in the Copyright Office records that are notoriously incomplete because the Copyright Office tells us all that we don’t have to register with them in order to own copyright and get benefits like getting paid when DiMA companies use our songs. You’ve heard about the loophole that the Digital Media Association companies like Spotify, Amazon, Google (YouTube) and Pandora (but not Apple) are leveraging to conjure up one of their beloved fake safe harbors? Yes, rather than actually get a license and pay royalties, these DiMA companies in the business of search want us to believe they can’t find songwriters or copyright owners in order to send the notice of intent that qualifies them for a compulsory license. ![]() Hypebot is reporting an important story you might have missed: SoundExchange/SXWorks has launched a tool for songwriters to begin unraveling the mess that Digital Media Association companies created at the Copyright Office over mass NOIs.
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