Apparently they’re going after mashups too, I responded with a fair use defense. Probably won’t work but I guess I’ll have to wait and see
wow, i have not run into this, and if anything, i’ve received compliments from the artist on using their tracks, “solid mixing” “thanks for the support”. i have even used some chromeo and other big name artist in mixes without any blocking, yes i have a free account.
but here is my catch, i get the majority of my stuff from the artist or re-mixer on soundcloud itself.
soundcloud needs a filter like google for tracks, say anything under 20mins, and leave the mixes alone.
I just had one of mine frozen. There was no tracklisting, so they must be listening or analysing.
Do you get a message saying they’re being suspended, or do they just disappear from your account?
I got an email when they froze it
creative commons doesn’t work like that. its not a freepass for you to post other peoples songs online (blended with other peoples songs). if you make a song, you can declare it ‘creative commons’ and then other people can do what they wish with it, inside of parameters that you chose. soundcloud gives you an easy way to mark songs you created with a cc so others can remix it.
“mark a creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry”, so when Patrick and David of Chromeo wrote and recorded ‘Needy Girl’, they didn’t mark it with the freedom cc gives.
Trent Reznor did give creative commons to his records Ghosts I-IV, so mix & remix his stuff, knock yourself out.
also, Last Gang is distributed in Canada by who? that would be the copyright loving folks at Universal Music.
doesn’t matter if you got the music through a record pool. its still someone elses song that you copying and putting online without them saying its ok.
I don’t agree with the copyright hounding of the major labels with dj work. it sucks. but im also frustrated by the lack of knowledge by the dj scene itself about copyright. we can just make up rules as we go, and then whine when others enforce the rules, simply because we don’t like it.
if you take mixtape culture out of DJing and you can consider me (and a whole lot of others) done with it.
In fairness to soundcloud I got in touch having recently upgrading my account and they have given me a full refund of this, which I thought was decent of them.
So what? thay are going to freeze excisions’ shambala mixtapes and those of other big names?
This is what you need - A podcast licence.
thats funny that SC is blocking people content. I was looking for a track lastnite, and random people has the full song and it was title - artist name with avail download for free on a popular track…way to drop the ball SC!
This thread popped up right after SC was shut down for maintenance so I’m betting they installed some software that’s just crawling the servers looking for stuff. There time will come I’m sure.
Thats why i use Mixcloud for my mixes and upload my setlist! Im going to slowly switch my downloadable mixes to podomatic.
That’s in the UK. Isn’t the copyright law different in the US?
Some of them are, but I think it matters more where the servers are, since they’re the ones making the stuff available to the unwashed masses.
I just made a profile so that I could reply to this thread, as I am having similar issues with soundcloud.
A mix of mine was taken down due to a copyright claim from Ultra records.
My question is, the mix was almost an hour long, so it is taking up a lot of space on my profile, but since it is frozen, no one can see it. Honestly, it was one of my older mixes, so I really wouldn’t care if I took it down, but at this point in time, I can’t even find the track to delete it from my profile to free up space. Has anyone been able to do this? And how did you go about deleting it?
Thanks in advance!
untitled.
google it. i found some forum/thread where the guy who sent me the email saying it was getting taken down erased it for me (you could email him back too).
im pretty sure if you dig around in the settings a bit on the dashboard you can see hidden tracks.
Hey bro, i’m new to the Mixtape game
What are basically the rules that apply. What if Like I have a shit ton of DJ premier instrumentals, is it alright if I put lyrics over it as long as I’m not making a profit to it?
I put a mixtape on soundcloud last night labeled Funky Jazz Breaks vol 4. with no track list. It was pulled in less than 1 min. So it has to be computer analyzed somehow?
It’s a mixtape of straight breaks & scratching. No words. Who knows who invented these breaks? Rap was invented using breaks. Seems strange to me?
Holy Necrorection!