{"id":654,"date":"2009-04-30T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=654"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:00:07","slug":"umg-asserts-copyright-of-slideshow-from-lindsay-matts-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/umg-asserts-copyright-of-slideshow-from-lindsay-matts-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"UMG asserts copyright of &#8220;Slideshow from Lindsay &#038; Matt&#8217;s wedding&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay and I put together a slide show for our wedding reception and set it to music.  I thought the Tragically Hip&#8217;s <em>In View<\/em> would be a good choice as it&#8217;s catchy and suited the slideshow.<\/p>\n<p>I had bought the <em>Hippopotamus<\/em> album from iTunes, but because of the DRM on the file I was not able to use it in the slideshow software and actually had to download the MP3 version from a P2P service to make use of it.<\/p>\n<p>After the wedding I posted the slideshow on YouTube and our <a href=\"http:\/\/clurko.com\">clurko.com <\/a>web site.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to today and YouTube alerted me via E-Mail that Universal Music Group contact had asserted their copyright over the song, and may restrict access to the video in certain countries or &#8221; In some cases ads may appear next to your video&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The video is still up and there appears to be ads beside it.   Here&#8217;s hoping UMG&#8217;s more liberal approach to their artist music works well for them.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iGEA3ryszxs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iGEA3ryszxs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay and I put together a slide show for our wedding reception and set it to music. I thought the Tragically Hip&#8217;s In View would be a good choice as it&#8217;s catchy and suited the slideshow. I had bought the Hippopotamus album from iTunes, but because of the DRM on the file I was not&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/umg-asserts-copyright-of-slideshow-from-lindsay-matts-wedding\/\">Continue Reading<span> UMG asserts copyright of &#8220;Slideshow from Lindsay &#038; Matt&#8217;s wedding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}