Anybody know anything about copyright law? Kind of a unique question...

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You're just lucky. Some people really do get their music removed, and I've had a dispute and got loads of music removed when I fell out withe the copyright owner. I totally agree with you that most times you get away with it, but I've had background music inside a car mean a section of video got silenced. Don Henley isn't alone in having stuff cut - Metallica and others even lost their own music when record companies get involved. The owners issue the takedown, spotify, itunes and google/youtube comply.
 
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You're just lucky. Some people really do get their music removed, and I've had a dispute and got loads of music removed when I fell out withe the copyright owner. I totally agree with you that most times you get away with it, but I've had background music inside a car mean a section of video got silenced. Don Henley isn't alone in having stuff cut - Metallica and others even lost their own music when record companies get involved. The owners issue the takedown, spotify, itunes and google/youtube comply.
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I mostly agree. But I've never seen a cover song get taken down. Are you talking about a cover recording or the actual original recording? "background music inside a car" sounds like you were playing the original recording. I might be wrong.

You're right it's not just the Eagles, but it's kind of become an internet joke about how ruthless Henley is. Rick Beato had videos blocked just for playing a few seconds of an Eagles song for teaching purposes. If he actually plays the song on his guitar, nothing happens. But the original recording gets taken down.

Anyway, in my experience, I've never had a cover song taken down.
 
Actually for the sake of accuracy, I have a cover of Alice Cooper's "Raped annd Freezing". It got blocked in something like Turkey and Iraq. I'm guessing it 's because of the word "Rape" in the title.

I actually just went and checked and those blocks seem to have been removed. Weird.
 
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ironically - I had one removed on youtube, by Sony. I had the option to fight it. They reminded me the big record companies had large resources to fight copyright infringement. Did I want to contest it? I said yes. Three months later, Sony released their claim. The real problem was it was my recording, of me, playing music I wrote.

I have a few covers blocked (not copyright strikes) Phil Collins You can't hurry love, Final Countdown, europe, and a queen under pressure Short snippets - not the whole song, played by me on bass! Adelle's Skyfall is blocked too - my recording of it.
 
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rob aylestone said:
ironically - I had one removed on youtube, by Sony. I had the option to fight it. They reminded me the big record companies had large resources to fight copyright infringement. Did I want to contest it? I said yes. Three months later, Sony released their claim. The real problem was it was my recording, of me, playing music I wrote.
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That's so weird. I had the same thing happen to me. I put up one of my songs that I wrote and it got claimed by CDBABY on behalf of an artist. I disputed it. If you dispute and they don't respond in one month, their claim is gone. So, after a month nothing happened and my song stayed up with no claim. I think that was just an algorithm screw up.

Actually, every original song I put on Youtube gets copyright-claimed by CDBABY on MY behalf. Which is weird, but it's a good thing. It means their copyright algorithm works. Basically, I'll never make a penny on Youtube, but I'll get my money from CDBABY.
 
You'll probably get more from CDbaby than youtube for the same thing! All my music is now hovering at around $20-30 a month, but the fees for this and that often take a big chunk. My biggest earner is an electronic version of an Erik Satie piece of music, and the weirdest was when I got a direct PRS payment for a slow instrumental version of a song from the 60s. It was dated and showed it was used in a theatre. Google got me to who was there that day. The song was by a UK band called Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the show that declared the use of the songs was ............. Gerry and the Pacemakers!! They used it as walk on music at the start of the show, and I got a 50/50 split of the royalties with Gerry Marsden who wrote it! I got the arranger credit.
 
Join ASCAP, it's free. They will guide you through all you need to know.
 
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