Zoe Keating Shares Her YouTube "Claiming" Experience

In response to yesterday's post "Warner Music Orders YouTube Takedown Of Slow Motion Crochet Video With No Music", successful d.i.y. artist Zoe Keating shared her own experiences identifying and claiming videos YouTube videos. "I can't actually claim the soundtrack of any video on my own," says Keating "It is only done by the Google bots automatically when a 3rd party uploads a video."

"I actually signed up for Content ID to track all the videos that ALREADY have my music in them." explained Keating. "For a very brief window when my account became active (2 days) I was able to use the Content Management interface to search for and claim the audio of videos. I managed to claim the audio for about 20 videos before that feature was disabled on my account. I was told that claiming videos is not a feature that is supposed to be active for sound recording copyright holders and it was a 'bug' that I was allowed to do it."

Read the original article and Zoe Keating's full comments here.