Here we go again. Another one of our videos has been contested. This time it is a company called Spice Digital. The offending article is Clinker's remix of Jesus is a Girls Name, from a few years ago. I suspect that both Sebastian Melmoth and Spice Digital remixed the original content, a silent Chaplin short, but they're now cheeky enough to claim it as their own. Or am I missing something here? Does YouTube use bots/algorithms to search for copyrighted content and all of this is actually automated and I'm just banging my head against a proverbial wall?
"The original content is a film Charles Chaplin titled 'A Woman' (1915). This film is now in the Public Domain. The original content is hosted by the Internet Archive and can be found here: https://archive.org/details/AWoman1915. I have already accredited this content in the video description. The original content has not been used in full; it has been cut, remixed and edited to serve as a music video for a musical composition of my own creation (under the Sebastian Melmoth alias). Not only does this video now exist as a work of art in its own right, but it is published online under the standard YouTube licence, with the intention of being freely available to be viewed by anyone across the globe. Therefore, I am contesting your claim that this video infringes copyright law." - Ilia Rogatchevski, Thursday 31 July 2014