Something that occurred a couple of years back now when I posted some dodgy low quality concert videos I took at Muse’s homecoming gigs at Teignmouth.

Warner at the time waded in straight away and claimed copyright on them, and YouTube took them down. Annoyed I was but given the warnings on YouTube’s help page about counter claims and possible legal actions if you proceed, I decided not to take it further.

Problem is I still have a black mark on my YouTube account now, and I’m still unsure their claim is valid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YQv70IaLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNAiC5xp-Zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARa93yFqxag

Keep thinking I should still challenge this on the basis that:

– Their claim is likely via the DMCA which is US law. I live in the UK, footage was shot in the UK
– Quality is low
– It’s non profit
– Serves no threat to the artist or Warner
– Promotes the concert and band

Could also argue that the band are happy with (and I think even promote to some degree) bootlegs of concerts. There are some exceedingly high quality bootlegs about, even of this concert. My humble low quality videos are hardly an issue at all.

Problem with the UK is we have no fair use in copyright law unlike the US, so despite the DMCA I’d probably have more success there.

But don’t know really. I’d just like them to remove the black mark mainly.