Originally Posted by
BillytheB
... Ookpik waltz ... flagged with a copyright claim from "LatinAutor, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - UMPG, and Unidisc Music (Publishing)"...
Originally Posted by
Gunnar
... blocked my hotel California video, ... strange for the owners to be in Brazil.
I'd say there's a possibility it's copyright trolls trying to make money off of *your* videos. Here's an older MandolinCafe thread about others' experiences with this sort of thing.
You can dispute the copyright claim. YouTube makes it easy to do that, just a few clicks (well, at least for videos where some claimant is trying to monetize them - but if the entire video has been pulled then I'm not sure what the procedure would be).
I've had to dispute fraudulent completely-bogus copyright claims several times in the last few years. Two were from Brazil (for my own arrangements of hundreds-years-old European classical pieces), and another fraudulent claim was from the Netherlands for a MIDI-only chords practice backing track for an American song (last I heard, the Netherlands is not part of the U.S. unless someone has tried to buy it, can't imagine that going over too well.) Anyway, my videos' copyright disputes were all resolved in my favor with no further interaction from me required.
As to who owns Ookpik Waltz now - not sure, but the original owner/composer was Canadian fiddler Frankie Rodgers. A quick quote from, among other places, TuneArch.org:
"Despite the rumors of antiquity and Native American provenance, the "Ookpik Waltz" was not derived from indigenous sources but rather is a latter 20th century composition of Mission, British Columbia, fiddler Frankie Rodgers (1936-2009), who published it in a tune book of his compositions. British Columbia fiddlers know the tune book and the source well. It was also first recorded on his (c. 1960's) LP "Maple Sugar, Fiddle Favorites by Canada's Old Time Fiddle King Frankie Rodgers of the Rodgers Brothers Band" (Point P-250). Sheet music of "Ookpik Waltz" was published with a 1965 copyright to Rodgers. The melody has been "folk-processed" since then, but is still recognizably derived from the original."
Apparently the record label mentioned above, "Point P-250", was also Canadian. Of course I suppose the rights could have been bought out by a Brazil-based outfit, but... I'm doubtful.
Anyway, here is audio of Ookpik Waltz's actual composer playing it:
(or direct link)
Elsewhere on YouTube, I found a different YouTube Ookpik Waltz (cover) that had a weird Brazil copyright claimant - but that might only mean that no one's bothered to contest it yet, or is unaware of the claim.
Some time ago, I noticed that YouTube stopped sending out email notifications of copyright claims on videos, instead they just silently monetize such videos without bothering to inform the person who'd posted the video. So in order to keep up with that, one has to log into one's YouTube channel periodically and manually check the list of copyright claims to see if any new claims have appeared.
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