So for the very first time I got a mix pulled from soundcloud over copyright Infringement, Usually I would just scuff this off as a loss and move on to the next one but I felt this situation was odd.
I was actually sent an email From the artist Ookay's marketing team asking for folks to listen to a new song of his with Showtek and it asked folks to purchase the track and play it in sets, After listening to the song I went ahead and purchased it off of beatport and played it in a set that was uploaded around 5 months ago.
After receiving the takedown notice I went ahead and made a post on disco:wax's facebook page letting them know I was upset my mix was taken down after doing EXACTLY what was asked of my by the artist. to my surprise they actually responded. I thought AWESOME even though I lost the mix the fact they are reaching out makes up for it... but I was wrong what I received was a quip back disco 4.PNG
after a short back and forth this is what it comes to:disco wax.PNG
This actually blew my mind, you ask me to promote a track and then tell me not to record or show anyone the mix afterwords. so that was the end of it I thought, I made a post on my personal Facebook saying I was disappointed in what I thought was a progressive label (keep in mind I am not some even remotely popular dj, I mix because I enjoy it and I have less than 100 followers on soundcloud and 600 friends on my personal Facebook) , Now they are Hoping onto my Facebook and commenting on my posts
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Now I work as a consultant for a marketing company, I understand how copyrights works and that the takedown was 100% in their rights what I was upset about is the fact they asked me to use a Track and than delete my work once I have completed it.
Does anyone else think this is an absolutely crazy interaction? I would never imagine another company doing this and the fact that they are now going out of their way to look for my stuff online and comment on it blows me away.
Let me know what you guys think, Am I in the wrong here for voicing my opinion on Facebook?
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