Fucking YouTube

[gwyn]

I'm trying to set my vids up so I can post them after they premiere at VVC, and I just had my Premieres vid, to Titanium for Peggy Carter, "blocked in all countries" and I can't test it out in public spaces to see if it's really completely blocked because I have to keep it private. I spent hours working on credits and a custom thumbnail for it and this vid was a major, major hassle to make what with my computer dying and getting the files, and now I can't even use it. I have been meaning to try to get a Critical Commons vids site, but there's no real control over the thumbnails and that's a hell of a lot of time wasted. And people really aren't going to even see it there, because all the traffic for fanvids is on YT these days. I hate them, but I feel like I'm just stuck there if I want anything to be seen.

The thing is, there are other vids to that song on YouTube, so this is just…arg. I learned a long time ago that filing a dispute does nothing, because whatever box you check, they say "that doesn't give you the right to use copyrighted work." Usually when I get a warning, I just do the "acknowledge third party content," but there's no option to do that here, it's just totally blocked.

I'm not actually sure what to even do here. This is so discouraging and frustrating. I don't have the spoons to deal with this, I really don't. (Add to this the fact that some people have been kind of snotty about Wasp Nest, and I just…why do I do this?)

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[gwyn]

You know, it's weird, I actually have your vid on a list of vid links (still love it!), and I went to see today if you had had trouble too. (I also meant to tell you earlier that I was doing Titanium for a vid at the con, even though I know most people don't care these days about someone using the same song, I just remember people being annoyed by that sometimes from back in the day. And I had a really strange experience with someone recently about a song they'd used too, and it made me a little nervous! So yeah, hello, it'll be in premieres!)

If you don't mind me asking, what did you do--just keep re-uploading, or challenging the ban warning?

[giandujakiss]

Glad you like it! And yes, of course you didn't have to tell me you were using the song, etc, etc - the norms have changed since those days, I think permission's only required for an obscure song that you only found because of someone else's vid.

So! Looking forward to seeing your vid!

Anyhoo, I just kept reuploading - but over a period of months. Because YT makes new deals with music publishers all the time, so I figured eventually they'd make a deal with the Titanium owner. But it's weird it would be unblocked for me and not for you.