I originally uploaded this the day after Mother's Day, but used both Elvis Presley's Mother Liked the Roses and C's Mamma, so the video was hit with two copyright notices. The reason I used licensed songs is because music is the best way I have of expressing myself. I am a very shy and scared person who never leads a crowd or makes a move to gain attention to myself, so it means something, or at least it should, when I venture outside my comfort zone to do or say something. Receiving two notices is not the same thing as strikes, so there's no need to worry. What the notices do mean is that I cannot receive any revenue from advertisements shown on that video as long as the music stays on there.
I have a few options to deal with this. One is I can file a counter claim based on the Fair Use law and wait for 30 days for it to be reinstated or resolved, and continue to fight it if it's reinstated, or I can take it down and re-edit it without the music and just silence, as I feel having an introduction and a closing credit sequence with silence would be a fitting way to remember my mother.
However, I need every little bit of income I can get because I don't have a job right now and I cannot find one at this time. This, while a hobby, is now my job for the time being. I have a right to that money, and I do believe a tribute to someone would count as fair use. But countering the claim has it's on costs too, considering how far it goes.
Receiving a claim and filing a counter claim is not difficult to understand, simply a long and lengthy process that goes like this: Claim --> Counter --> Claim Dropped/Reinstated. Then comes the next round if the claim is reinstated. It's the same thing, only this time I have to fill out a form giving my name, address, and phone number. It's the third time the claim is reinstated that I have to worry, as that is when I receive a copyright strike. I can get rid of the strike by countering the claim again, but if I do that, I am telling the company filing the claim to sue me, as filing the third counter is a legal action. The chances are that I will never actually be taken to court over it, but see, it's a chance they won't, a chance they will.
I cannot afford a lawyer, and anyone under the sun knows that they can and because they have money, they will win over me with no fucks given.
But the last thing to consider, is it really all that important that I earn money off of this video I made for my mother? It somewhat seems to me that I'm saying that earning money is more important than remembering my mother. That all she was good for was getting money for me. That isn't how it is and I personally think Mom would tell me to do what I think is best.
In the end, this is a tribute to my mother and as part of this tribute, music is involved. I'm not interested in being sued, and while I need that money, it hurts me too much to take this down and re-edit it simply to please copyright holders that may or may not be allowed to hold such revenue from me. I want the video up for my mother and that's it.
In the end, I said screw it and made it public. Apparently, when you have something on privet or unlisted, even if you previously had it public, YouTube will act like you just published the video. So this was posted the day after Mother’s Day, but YouTube is treating it like it was just posted.