EMI Pulls Coldpay vs. Satriani Videos From YouTube
EMI is using the full force of copyright law and its deal with YouTube to pull the videos that show the strong comparisons between Coldplay song "Vida La Vida" Joe Satriani’s "If I Could Fly". "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by EMI Music" reads the banner across the offending videos including the one Hypebot had posted here. (click play).
While well within their legal rights to yank the videos, EMI’s actions serve as a reminder of how copyright laws can be used for selective censorship. Most labels have deals that allow YouTube users to post cover versions or for example place music behind a home video. Would a video of a female fan dancing seductively to "Vida La Vida" been censored?
As of 7AM EST on Tuesday, is a still viewable comparison video; at least until Hypebot’s readers at EMI get in to work…
I don’t believe that EMI is “…well within their legal rights to yank the videos.”
U.S. Copyright law provides for “Fair Use” of copyright material, regardless of what the major labels and the RIAA would like you to believe.
Section 107 of the Copyright Act contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
The Satriani/Coldplay videos posted on Youtube each need to be evaluated on their own merit and content but there is no doubt that there is far more abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by EMI going on here than any copyright infringement by the posters of these videos.
The only thing similar is the 3 notes and chord change, the coldplay one changes on different beat and as for the drums being the same try nearly 99.99% of all soft cock rock and pop, gee wizz snare on 2 and 4, come on!!
Ahahah…..Gee wizz snare….
That’s funny.
stealing that.