"Signing Off" - GoDigital's false claim...

I was just organising my YouTube account, putting some playlists together, and I noticed there was a "copyright infringement claim" or somethingeruther on one of my videos - "Signing Off" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6stcWXqU8fg) - from some crowd called GoDigital who I'd never even heard of until just now.

After a quick search I discovered that this lot apparently use an automated system in partnership with YouTube, which naturally results in myriad false claims on videos. Clearly the music in my short film - created by Brian Wright - must sound a bit like something in their catalogue according to the 'ears' of the automated system.

Naturally I've disputed this obvious false claim (the two pieces of music were made for me, and this film, by Brian Wright who has made music for some of my other short films, and are for my use - GoDigital wouldn't even possess the original audio files anyway, which don't feature on-location audio (bird song, breeze in the trees, footsteps, gasps etc) for those two tracks - whereas I actually do possess the original audio files), so I'll see what comes of it.

At the moment the audio remains on the video itself, and hopefully it'll remain as such, and then hopefully the false claim will be confirmed to be just that - false, as a result of the automated system.

I've edited the info section on the "Signing Off" page to reflect this issue, and thought I'd make a blog post about it as well, just to hammer the point home.

Showing in Lithuania...

I've heard today that apparently "Contempt of Conscience" is going to be screening at the 2009 Inconvenient Films Human Rights Film Festival - in Lithuania.

From their website:

The festival, organized by Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with “WatchDocs: Human Rights in Film IFF” will be held October 22-30, 2009 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Additional screenings will take place in Kaunas, Klaipeda and other regions of Lithuania during the following month.

Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films” is the first and so far the only one human rights film festival in Lithuania as well as in the Baltic states. The mission of this festival is to raise awareness of human rights issues around the world and to connect them to those that are present in Lithuania. By presenting various documentaries on main human rights topics organizers hope to encourage public debates on human rights issues and ways to address them. The festival became one of the biggest film festivals and cultural events in Lithuania with “Ad Hoc: Inconveninet Films 2008” being visited by 13 000 viewers.

http://www.nepatoguskinas.lt/