5. Youtube "silenced" John Cage's 4'33" (see pic)
Fun fact: 4'33" *is silent*:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2733
Looks like silence is now copyrighted.
So. Call your MEP or e-mail them, now. The vote in the commission is June 20th. We only need to flip one vote:
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/
@r0 I mean, dang, it would have been a pretty amazing piece of performance art:
1. upload some proprietary piece of music to youtube with 'John Cage 4'33"' as the title and John Cage's photo as the cover photo.
2. wait for YouTube to actually *make* it into John Cage's 4'33" by siliencing it
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!1!
Quite honestly, I would admire such a piece of algorithmic art very much!
"Making YouTube into a 4'33" generator" FTW. ;)
@r0 @rysiek it is here, apparently it was done to show that the inserted music (not the silent 4'33") *wasn't* credited automatically which is still isn't TBH (only because the uploaded credited it himself).
I've run into the same myself when uploading cover versions of tracks, they are credited to the wrong language version..
@r0 interesting. Any background on that? I can totally see that happening, but I can also totally see YouTube silencing 4'33" on some bogus copyright claim.