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Q: Copyright claim on slideshow created through Photos app

Hi,

 

I recently uploaded a video on Youtube which was actually a slideshow exported as a video.

 

After few minutes, I noticed that there is a copyright claim on the video with the message that it has some viewing as well as monetization restrictions.

 

The copyright is due to the music that added as part of Vintage Prints - 31 Days - Zee Avi

 

Is there something that I can do to remove this claim?


Thanks in advance for reading and helping out.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011)

Posted on Jun 21, 2016 9:39 PM

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jun 21, 2016 9:45 PM in response to meanewone
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    Jun 21, 2016 9:45 PM in response to meanewone

    Probably not - but that really is a legal question not a technical one

     

    and YouTube is extremely conservative on Copyrights - you certainly can contact them but there in nothing in Photo for Mac to give you any ability to address legal issues or any sort

     

    And of course YouTube help is a good source for assistance with YouTube issues - https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6013276?hl=en

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 21, 2016 11:37 PM in response to meanewone
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    Jun 21, 2016 11:37 PM in response to meanewone

    The slideshow theme music is free to user everyone, but you would need a lawyer and an expensive lawsuit to fight for the right to use it on a web site. It is safer not to use any commercial music for slideshows you are publishing on YouTube, just  spoken comments, sound effects, and music you are performing yourself.

  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen Jun 22, 2016 9:16 PM in response to meanewone
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    Jun 22, 2016 9:16 PM in response to meanewone

    This seems clear to me... You cannot use the slideshow's music as you are using it. This is from the terms and conditions for the Photos App.

     

    Uploading to Youtube would be hard to qualify as "personal" and if you have made an effort to monetize the slideshow, that is clearly against the terms.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 12.12.37 AM.png

     

    http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1011.pdf

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 22, 2016 10:16 PM in response to LACAllen
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    Jun 22, 2016 10:16 PM in response to LACAllen

    Uploading to YouTube is a "Public performance", but not necessarily commercial use.

     

    It is interesting that Apple is excluding commercial use from the right to the slideshow music themes.  It is different in the GarageBand license.  There the loops may be used for commercial products. But even with the more liberal license for GarageBand loops there are continually copyright claims from other GarageBand users who used the same loops for a song and now are claiming the copyright.

  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen Jun 22, 2016 10:35 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 22, 2016 10:35 PM in response to léonie

    I think that it could be said that personal use and public performance are 180 degrees from each other.

     

    Bottom line, I don't think any one user will "win" this type of battle. I am sure artists who have provided Apple with content for personal usage can quickly lawyer up and have this type of thing stopped if desired. I would imagine they have paperwork that clearly defines how Apple's users can use their intellectual property.

     

    A GarageBand composition may be protected, in the way a creator has combined the loops together and such, but not the individual loop within the composition. That is the essence of every "they stole my music" lawsuit ever launched. Like the one Led Zeppelin faces right now on Stairway To Heaven. Again, one can't protect a single music note, but you can protect the way you put them together.

     

    Since the music track to a slideshow from Photos is a complete work, the creator gets to dictate how it can be used.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 22, 2016 11:04 PM in response to LACAllen
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    Jun 22, 2016 11:04 PM in response to LACAllen

    With the loops is Apple licensing quite complex arrangements for commercial use. Some loops are practically songs on their own. The longest cinematic loop in my library is comparable to any theme music, one minute and 54 seconds.

     

    I'm a bit puzzled by the difference in the license agreement to use music clips for GarageBand and the rest of the iLife apps.

     

    See:  Using royalty-free loops in GarageBand with commercial work - Apple Support

     

    The GarageBand software license agreement says:

    "GarageBand Software. You may use the Apple and third party audio loop content (Audio Content), contained in or otherwise included with the Apple Software, on a royalty-free basis, to create your own original music compositions or audio projects. You may broadcast and/or distribute your own music compositions or audio projects that were created using the Audio Content, however, individual audio loops may not be commercially or otherwise distributed on a standalone basis, nor may they be repackaged in whole or in part as audio samples, sound effects or music beds."

    So don't worry, you can make commercial music with GarageBand, you just can't distribute the loops as loops.

  • by Boyd Porter,

    Boyd Porter Boyd Porter Jun 23, 2016 7:58 AM in response to meanewone
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    Jun 23, 2016 7:58 AM in response to meanewone

    You can't. That is a result of a "Cease and Desist" letter from the copyright holder of the music.