Comment by userbinator
7 years ago
she was still concerned about the legalities
I thought uploading to YouTube and seeing who tries to claim the rights might be one way of identifying it, but then again, the flakiness of the automatic copyright identification system would probably make that pretty useless for even slightly obscure music.
Reminds me of the way at my workplace of identifying who does the machine under given IP or webservice belong to - the easiest way is to turn it off and see who comes to complain.
I'm still surprised YouTube doesn't leverage that feature to build a Shazam competitor. They'd actually have the edge there as they can directly link to the song on YouTube, thus pocketing the part of the ad revenue they keep (the rest goes to the copyright holder).
They could also do that for videos (aka from a screenshot or image it would find you the video for it) as I'm suspecting they have a Content ID system for videos too (I've seen shows recorded from TV being mirrored and the picture slowly moving around, presumably to defeat such a system).