The other day I finally got pegged for distributing music illegally. In an interesting twist, though, it was on the independent short film that I uploaded to youtube a couple years ago.
Universal Music Group (UMG) apparently has realized that some music they own appears in the movie Serious Coffee... they probably have used some of the state-of-the-art video sniffing type software to figure this out. The email they sent me (which is, by the way, also copy-righted, as you can see here) interestingly states that UMG is generally OK with my use of their music, and has deigned to allow me to leave the video up. In exchange for this I must allow UMG to place some sort of advertisements on the sidebar of my video page (or, maybe, the video overlays that youtube does). I suppose its not much of a concession for 30 second clips of relatively unknown songs to appear in a video which has been viewed fewer than 300 times.
At least I can have the joy of thinking that maybe somebody over at Universal watched my video and was vaguelly intrigued. I do wish, though, that I was able to find some orginal music ala Matt's Roosevelt Way. Maybe some day. I would like to see some network where Indie-type musicians can license their music (in exchange for free-publicity) to the online-movie "industry." It would be a good leap forward for both, I think.
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