Hey everyone!
My song American Idol, and it's video, made the Grammy Nominating Ballot this year in the categories of:
For performance by TJR:
Record for the Year
Male Country Vocal
For Songwriting:
Song of Year and Country song AMERICAN IDOL
Kathy Barrett & Timothy John Ramirez, songwriters
For video:
Best Short Form Music Video
TJR
Best Country Song AMERICAN IDOL
Best Short form video
Some of you may remember that this is the video that was banned from Youtube for a short while due to Fremantle Media's claim of Copyright infringement.
First of all, I think it's cool that I made the Country category because I am NOT a country artist.....But wouldn't it be funny if I actually got nominated? (After all they did to try and shut me up).
A BRIEF TIMELINE
01/14/09 TJR premieres the video for his song "American Idol" On Youtube. The video uses clips from the TV show to parody the series and make it appear as if TJR is auditioning for the show.
01/17/09 In less than 4 days and after 20 thousand views, the video is pulled from youtube by request of Fremantle International Media claiming copyright infringement.
01/26/09 TJR premieres an alternate version of the video, replacing all the scenes used from the A.I. TV show with puppets. In less than four days this video is also pulled from Youtube at the request of Fremantle International claiming that this video (that uses none of their media) is violating their copyright. TJR's entire Youtube channel is also taken down.
TJR contacts the EFF (www.eff.org) for help. He files the paper work to contest Femantle's charge of copyright
02/19/09 A month later Youtube concludes that TJR's 2nd video is not a violation of copyright and restores his Youtube channel, & the alternate version of the video.
03/11/09 After a month of complete inaction on Femantle International's part to counter TJR's challenge, TJR 's original American Idol video is restored. Reactions to the video by A.I. fans range from outright hostility for daring to saying anything negative about their favorite show to kudos for calling them out on ageism.
09/21/09 TJR get's the news that his song and it's accompanying video has made the opening Gammy ballot for the 2010 Gammy Awards in the categories of: Record of the year, Song of the year, Best Country Song, & Best Short Form Music Video.
UPDATE: Well, I didn't get nominated, but it was vindicating to get Grammy Consideration (And I don't have the hype and power of National TV show to help me none either)
Take care everyone
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Banned (Again) by American Idol
As most of you know, 2 weeks ago the music video for my song "American Idol" was taken down by Youtube by Fremantle International.
They took us down because we used clips from the TV show (many of them the same exact clips that hundred of other similar parodies on youtube are using too).
We re-shot the video and removed all their media.
We uploaded the new video and Youtube took it down almost immediately.
This was due to an automatic process that Youtube uses so we went through youtube's dispute process, and youtube put the video back up.
This was yesterday.
This morning youtube took the new video down and they SUSPENDED my youutbe channel all at the request of Fremantle media.
Yep, all the hard work that I put into my youtube channel is gone.
I have used none of their media in this new video. It is straight out parody.
Their objection to my video has nothing to do with copyright infringement. It had to do with the fact that I dared to speak critically about their show.
They took us down because we used clips from the TV show (many of them the same exact clips that hundred of other similar parodies on youtube are using too).
We re-shot the video and removed all their media.
We uploaded the new video and Youtube took it down almost immediately.
This was due to an automatic process that Youtube uses so we went through youtube's dispute process, and youtube put the video back up.
This was yesterday.
This morning youtube took the new video down and they SUSPENDED my youutbe channel all at the request of Fremantle media.
Yep, all the hard work that I put into my youtube channel is gone.
I have used none of their media in this new video. It is straight out parody.
Their objection to my video has nothing to do with copyright infringement. It had to do with the fact that I dared to speak critically about their show.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Banned By American Idol
I hope you got to see my American Idol video last week.....Because it has been banned!
I wish this was a joke.
Let me tell you what happened.
As you know, my song "American Idol" is critical of the show because it points out the fact that they do not allow anyone over 29 to compete.
We filmed a funny video that used used clips from American Idol to make it look like my performance of the song was being judged on the show.
We premiered the video on Tuesday 02/14/09
On Friday 02/16/09 we broke over 20 thousand views
On Saturday morning 02/17/09 We found out that that the video had
been pulled from youtube at the request of Fremantle International (the company that owns the American Idol TV show).
They claimed copyright infringement because we used clips from their show in our video.
We felt that the use of those clips falls under the legal category of "fair use" which allows usage of copyrighted material for satire and parody.
For more info on the standards of fair use please click here
If you go to youtube you will find thousands of American Idol parodies. A good number of those parodies use clips from the show too.
So why aren't those clips removed from youtube also?
Maybe it's because none of those parodies where being critical of the show.
Maybe it's because my song points out an uncomfortable fact about the show, that American Idol doesn't want to talk about and wants to avoid any kind of public discussion about it.
American Idol is an entertaining show, but I personally think it's wrong and terribly "Un-American" for them to bar anyone who has the talent to compete just on the basis of their age.
In my opinion you might as well exclude anyone for race, religion or anything else, because it's the same thing.
Which is why until last year, I never watched the show and encouraged people avoid watching it.
SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
I need to speak to some individuals of the Lawerly persuasion.
I could fight this legally, but the money (at least thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands) to hire an attorney is not an option to someone of my means.
But there are other ways I can fight this. And that is what I am looking into now.
I wish this was a joke.
Let me tell you what happened.
As you know, my song "American Idol" is critical of the show because it points out the fact that they do not allow anyone over 29 to compete.
We filmed a funny video that used used clips from American Idol to make it look like my performance of the song was being judged on the show.
We premiered the video on Tuesday 02/14/09
On Friday 02/16/09 we broke over 20 thousand views
On Saturday morning 02/17/09 We found out that that the video had
been pulled from youtube at the request of Fremantle International (the company that owns the American Idol TV show).
They claimed copyright infringement because we used clips from their show in our video.
We felt that the use of those clips falls under the legal category of "fair use" which allows usage of copyrighted material for satire and parody.
For more info on the standards of fair use please click here
If you go to youtube you will find thousands of American Idol parodies. A good number of those parodies use clips from the show too.
So why aren't those clips removed from youtube also?
Maybe it's because none of those parodies where being critical of the show.
Maybe it's because my song points out an uncomfortable fact about the show, that American Idol doesn't want to talk about and wants to avoid any kind of public discussion about it.
American Idol is an entertaining show, but I personally think it's wrong and terribly "Un-American" for them to bar anyone who has the talent to compete just on the basis of their age.
In my opinion you might as well exclude anyone for race, religion or anything else, because it's the same thing.
Which is why until last year, I never watched the show and encouraged people avoid watching it.
SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
I need to speak to some individuals of the Lawerly persuasion.
I could fight this legally, but the money (at least thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands) to hire an attorney is not an option to someone of my means.
But there are other ways I can fight this. And that is what I am looking into now.
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