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Originally posted by Ulrihs
This is wrong. Baauer is getting 0$ from all countless those parodies. If Youtube pays then it does it to channel owner where video belongs, not the artist of song used in video. Actually if wanted Baauer could demand for most those parody videos to be removed based on copyright complain.
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That only happens if the copyright owner (i.e. the record label) doesn't claim rights on the video. Youtube analyzes all videos and if the audio matches that of an existing song, it automatically claims the video to the record label and sends them the check. The label can claim any video as long as they have the copyright on it. Then they can run ads on it and still get the money that way (any official Youtube partner can do this). The channel owner only gets money if he tries to run ads on his video and the real copyright owner doesn't catch him.
So in this case, the only videos that would count towards the charts are those that explicitly use audio from the song, or sound exactly the same. If that's the case then why shouldn't they count towards the charts?
They're using the song.
it's all about timing.
