Posts Tagged ‘budapest’
YouTube pulls the plug on my audio
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
This week I noticed that YouTube had removed all the audio from some of my videos because they have music in them that I am not licensed to distribute. Media protection is a very complicated issue nowadays. Makes you wonder where to draw the line. What if I was performing the song myself? What if my video simply had music playing in the background, does that mean I can’t share it on the internet?
I clearly am not profiting from my videos of a family vacation that are up on YouTube. Second of all, some of the music used in my videos was purchased by myself; does that not give me the right to play it for my friends and family to enjoy?
I respect an artist’ ownership of his or her music, but if someone is sharing that song without profiting from it, that should be allowed. After all, shouldn’t a talented musician want to share their songs with as many people as possible?
Here is my latest video from my trip to Europe. And my first edit in High Definition! This time I’m uploading to Vimeo. Thanks to The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, MGMT and The Books for the songs! If I could personally ask you for permission I would.
UPDATE: September 3rd
So I decided to upload the above video to YouTube anyway, just to see what kind of problem they have with it. Shortly after, they send me an email saying content was identified as being owned by Sony Music Entertainment, and I need do nothing. I checked the video to see if YouTube has yanked the audio yet, and surprisingly they didn’t! I scrolled to a song by MGMT that I used in the video and noticed a small ad pops up in the bottom identifying the artist, song name, and giving the viewer the opportunity to buy it. That’s great!!! I would love to support the artist. I can deal with a little ad. Technology and creative marketing win over pirate killers!!!
Tags: beatles, budapest, copyright, slovokia, sony, sufjan, the books, videography, youtube
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Euro Trek 2009
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Just returned from a two week trek across central Europe! My brother Ben and I went to Budapest where my brother Connor is teaching English with his girlfriend Heli. The four of us and another girl named Eva set out to make it to the southern coast and back up to the top again.
This was my first time in Europe and it was quite amazing. We also stayed with Eva’s parents in Hungry and Heli’s parents in Slovakia. They were very graceful and excited to see us. They filled us up on some amazing traditional dishes and Eva’s parents gave us two massive jugs of homemade wine for the trip!
Budapest is a beautiful city, practically carved out of stone. Vienna has massive extravagant palaces that seem to match the very fashionable and trendy lifestyle. Bosnia has huge winding mountains, and in it, Sarajevo though quaint and friendly bears many scars form the Bosnian war of the early 90s. The concrete walls of our hostel was still riddled with bullet holes.
The Adriatic sea on the coast of Croatia has crystal clear water spotted with Islands. On the island of Korcula we found a beautiful condo on a mountainside that overlooked the ocean. It even had turtles in the balcony garden!
To see all the photos click my Flickr stream to the right.
Tags: bosnia, budapest, croatia, europe, slovakia, vacation
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