False Claims (Part Three)

I really hoped that I wouldn't have to address this issue again, but, despite having lost their last attempt to claim some kind of rights over a piece of public domain music I used on a video posted on You Tube, 'The Orchard' are at it again.  This time it isn't one film they're making fake claims on, but two!  Clearly, their audacity knows no bounds as they are now claiming that two completely different pieces of public domain music are actually the same as a single track by one of their fictional artists.  Even more bizarrely, in both cases they claim that their made up client's non-existent track starts part way through a continuous piece of music.  The details of their fraudulent claims are the same as before: an artist that nobody has ever heard of with unreleased albums (all consisting of tracks with single word titles) on a non-existent label.  As before, there is no way of hearing the track they claim is being infringed to make a comparison for oneself. 

This time around I've dropped any pretence at politeness in my response to these claims as they are beyond contempt.  Quite apart from the quite obvious use of fake details, they have picked on two films which have been posted on You Tube for months (eighteen months in one case), begging the question of why wait until now to make this sort of claim?  But these people are utterly shameless, presenting themselves as the injured party as they opportunistically attempt to defraud innocent web-users.  I really don't want this to turn into some kind of long-running saga here, but I feel that it is important to try and highlight the activities of parasites like 'The Orchard' and name and shame them in the hope that maybe, eventually, Google, owners of You Tube, might actually do something to stop them trying to exploit users of the site.  As I've said before, they and their ilk are rapidly making it next to impossible to upload videos with background music to You Tube for fear of having to waste inordinate amounts of time dealing with these kinds of spurious claims.  If you even know about them, that is: Google never sees fit to e-mail or message you in any way.  Unless you regularly check your uploads page, you'll never see the claims.  So, come on Google, clean up your act and start protecting your users from sharks like 'The Orchard'.