Firstly, dealing with publishing and Content ID teams is almost impossible. They will quote their policies over your music and rights endlessly. Forget the fact you own it.
But there is another issue happening behind the scenes that many people might overlook. Instead of blocking or removing your video, some entities make false claims on your content. If you do not challenge these claims, they receive the payments instead.
The image in this post shows the claims made on one hour of broadcast on Facebook, all of them false. Imagine the scale of this! Where does all that money go?
Absolute shit-show
We did some music for the BBC some years ago, wondered why royalties were so low, despite syndication and repeated use. Asked AIM to have a look and it turns out PRS only use ‘sample days’ for that content.
Much like everything else, it’s a racket.
I remember seeing a Dave Prod Unit YouTube vid of a Marcias track being copyright claimed by whoever put out the IDMEMO compilation. Despite Dave's vid being at least 10 years older than the compilation
Do you do enough business off of Facebook to justify the man hours in dealing with challenges or lost income with false claims? You might, but it’s a question to consider.
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Whole swathes of unpublished works claimed and paid out on.
Where there’s a shill, there’s a way.
We did some music for the BBC some years ago, wondered why royalties were so low, despite syndication and repeated use. Asked AIM to have a look and it turns out PRS only use ‘sample days’ for that content.
Much like everything else, it’s a racket.
Big up the MRCSN tho 😆