Molly Whitejust noticed that tiktok muted the audio on a video of mine because of a copyright strike based on... silence
Viss@molly0xfff ... you can copyright silence?!
Pomax@Viss @molly0xfff there are two types of musical copyright. Recordings, and compositions. Even if the composition is silent, e.g. "4:33" by John Cage, there *is* a composition and it counts.
You would lose the argument that a 3 minute video is "4:33" though.
(but if someone releases a video that's exactly 4:33 long and is just silence, anyone with any sort of musical education would know that's a direct reference to Cage's work, and so would constitute a composition copyright violation)
Philip C James@TheRealPomax @Viss @molly0xfff
Not necessarily. As Eric Morecambe pointed out, he was playing all the right notes though not necessarily in the right order...
Andre Previn: Playing All the Right Notes! A tribute from the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show 1971
@PhilipCJames @Viss @molly0xfff There are some delightful defenses for this very specific case, and it's truly ridiculous that companies are allowed to use computers can both automatically flag works as violations, and be made to do so without scrutiny of the reporter, when they can't equally be given evidence or even case law that disproves a claim.