Below in the previous post are three previews to some instrumental/soundtrack work.
Presently I am getting things squared and set with distribution issues.
Mainly for three albums (Luckily I did not register more than those three.)
I had a service representing some albums who appear to have dipped out in
any response.
And so there were copyright claims and also strikes against my useage of my own material.
As such, I was wondering why certain clips and music videos were having strikes filed against myself,
the creator and content owner.
Well it turns out the distributor had just cold shut their artists out,
and after roughly a year of requesting a takedown and removal of being associated with their services,
with no answer or fulfillment of that request, there are still youtube, spotify, itunes, and amazon/etc claims to those albums.
And so I am sorting things out with that service or very well trying to.
So any official releases are held at this point until getting that situation sorted.
Will see what steps I need to take to sort out that headache. Some distributors may put you in a cold place, so pretty much navigating to do takedown requests to each site individually, as the distributor otherwise could fulfill the request they legally agreed to, and get the issue solved all at once.
A kind of branching into experience another task in managing now not only editing, creating, handling all of the in between things, but now, understanding distribution legal issues.
And making note that a service can take a run while leaving their artists or content creators without any liability of going in to regaining content rights.
It may be a bit of time and steps to get it handled, but I plan to learn more about it and see it through.
And will seek the right contacts to further handling the situation if representing myself on my own behalf, with proof of my creations and intellectual ownership isn't enough for all of the "between the lines" in distribution and such.
Will see how obliging or dirty that world is, regarding streaming, rights to creator, streaming services and all of that.
Not the most interesting subject! but a sort of peek into today's navigation of multiple tasks doing digital services and attempts at being completely DIY.
Some answers as to why re-sharing my own material and having takedown notices and content removal are a bit more clear now however.
See I still have intents to make and alter, resample, and release the albums in question and also re-apply them to later things like audio books, and the like.
I hadn't planned to dealing with this side of streaming services or needing to prove ownership of my very own creations, but I suppose that in today's world of creating, it is something that needs to be touched upon or worked through at some point.
There is no way I really like or feel comfortable with that side of the "industry"
and not only the shaping of personalities and censorship of algorithm and promotional choices kind of push certain trends to the top, but being able to even use your own material apparently becomes an issue as well.
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