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Every time I upload a video of me playing a "classical" work (Bach, Chopin, Mozart) on the piano, I get a YouTube warning and the content blocked. So far, about two dozen times, I challenge it and it comes back, but I expect someday to exceed some threshold and be gone forever.

Some of the challengers are "scam" companies, but other times it's Deutsche Gramophone or Sony.



Evidently your playing sounds too much like one of their professionals. Take it as a complement.


Alternatively, you are playing from a modern typesetting of the music which has some extra notes added to detect that you are making a derivative work through your performance, like how map makers add "trap streets" to their works.

Being serious, though, I believe that a typesetting of a piece of public domain music can be eligible for copyright, but I don't believe that a performance from that typesetting can count as a derivative work of the typesetting, even if the musician faithfully performs a few "new" notes added by the typesetter.


This isn't done. The well-known repertoire are scrutinized note-for-note.




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