YouTube removes internet’s favourite background music over bogus copyright claim | anthonysegaert
The internet’s favourite music livestream, which provided more than two years of “lo-fi” background music for hundreds of millions of people studying or working late into the night, was removed by YouTube on Sunday night after a Malaysian music label lodged a fake copyright dispute.
Lofi Girl, founded by a French creator known only as Dimitri, owns the rights to all the music it plays via its music label, Lofi Records. But YouTube removed both streams from its platform after it received a takedown notice from FMC Music, which claimed the livestream featured one of its tracks. YouTube removed the video and threatened to disable the Lofi Girl channel if it was found to breach copyright again.
Unlike regular, highly produced music, low-fidelity music, or lo-fi, embraces imperfections that might otherwise be seen as flaws. With a mostly lyric-free grainy sound mixing jazz, hip-hop and soul, the purposely imperfect beats have come to occupy a unique space in internet culture. With more than one billion views on the Lofi Girl channel alone, students the world over have used the genre to help focus over the last decade., which in turn helps boost productivity.
The Lofi Girl account said it was “shocked and disappointed to see that there’s still not any kind of protection or manual review of these false claims.”“[The takedown] was entirely out of our control, and the sad part is that there was no way to appeal beforehand,”Legal experts say the takedown highlights the difficulties creators face in publishing content in a highly restrictive copyright environment like YouTube.
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