The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos – for audio, text, stills, code, everything.

Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok, Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.

Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.

Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html

The vote is scheduled 10-13. September.

Make a move now.

This is so important.

Europe, please speak up and speak out.

HI!! REMEMBER BACK IN JULY WHERE WE GOT FIRST PART OF ARTICLE 13 STOPPED? WELL NOW WE´RE IN ROUND 2!!

WE NEED TO STOP THIS!!

AND WE ONLY HAVE A FEW DAYS!!!  THE VOTE IS SET FOR 12 SEPT.!!

IF YOU LIVE IN EU CALL YOUR MP AND ASK THEM TO VOTE NO

AND YOU LIVE OUTSIDE EU PLZ SHARE SO AS MANY PPL AS POSSIBLE SEES THIS

I ONLY SAW A POST ABOUT IT TODAY , 7 SEPT.!!

WE NEED TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!

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