MySpace To Trap Copyrighted Material With Audio-Fingerprinting
Macworld is reporting that MySpace will use ‘audio fingerprinting’ technology to automatically identify copyright infringing material at the point at which it is uploaded.
The system is provided by Gracenote, and appears to be a mixture of ID3 tag recognition and audio waveform matching.
Of course, there are many valid reasons to upload material that the system may tag as infringing, such as parody or critical review. It’ll be impossible for any blogger to add clips of songs to a music review now.
Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?
Comment by Elliott — December 1, 2006 @ 11:38 am
I don’t seem to be able to upload compositions I have written myself!! Its says the material is copyrighted. which of course it can’t be as its totally new, unique and 100% my own work,
what a ridiculous system.
Comment by dave johnston — December 12, 2006 @ 11:49 pm
Hi Dave,
Technically, the site is correct - the music *is* copyrighted, but the problem is that *you* hold the copyright, and the music industry believes that “all your music are belong to us”. It’s appalling.
James
Comment by James Holden — December 17, 2006 @ 11:07 am