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Saturday, February 23, 2013

postheadericon Copyright And The Harlem Shake: Selective Enforcement

For those of you who have managed to avoid viral sensation February, known as "The Harlem Shake", consider yourself lucky. People always look a complete loss of how it became a " thing, "but it is the first 30 seconds of a song released almost a year ago, called The Harlem Shake

by Baauer the first half involving a person in costume crazy (often with headphones) dancing around, while others do not, followed by a sharp drop and suddenly the whole world dancing like crazy, often with costumes, animals plush (animals or real), people in sleeping bags and more. It was pretty crazy (and yes, we know that this is not "the real Harlem Shake", but what what?) with many, many, many, many people, companies and organizations through making their own versions. There were reports of Harlem Shake 4000 videos be uploaded to YouTube every day, and more than 60,000 already be on YouTube. If you want (and I warn you to be careful), you can spend hours going through video after video. Junction KnowYourMeme gathered up some of the most popular. I can not guarantee the amount of these videos, you have before you go crazy, so be aware.
For those who
saw this video was essentially the first, but is quickly followed by more or less define the basic parameters of the meme.







During the song reached the weekend Baauer number one in the charts and appears to be doing very well in the world. In addition, the song has been translated into a show sold out in New York Baauer and what is likely to be a little money. This is because, more than other crazy using "their" song (which includes many samples) Baauer and his label Mad Decent have an agreement with INDmusic that helps independent labels / musicians demand videos through YouTube contentId ads and to place them. So mix a song-selling iTunes and allows free use of it on YouTube (and monetization through advertising) and seems a little profit is made.
Therefore, for some, it was the emergence of a new story on how to enable people to build something in their music was a good way to allow an artist make money, not flipping out "copyright infringement". But ... then we found that it was not that simple. As noted by the Verge, while Mad Decent and for most people leave Baauer do what they want with the song, they send a removal Azelia banks on Soundcloud sending his words on the Baauer track together, and also posted a video

which quickly became a kind of Twitter struggle with banks Baauer cry





And from there we get the following dialog:
seems that absolutely must be more than this, because it was unlikely that banks that song and video together so fast after

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