Footnotes vs Bookmarks
It is no exaggeration to say John Sutherland is both well read and knows how to read well.
He is the recently retired Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London, and is the President of the Society of Indexers. As Sue Lawley will tell you, he has a flair for both the old and the new. He wants his readers to explore much more than his text. His latest book is called Magic Moments. Gone are the pages of footnotes, instead a profusion of internet bookmarks, as well as a "book portal". Here's more about the index and the book:
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This topic on iPM was very timely for me, as I had earlier that day also received an email from YouTube informing me that I had breached their copyright rules, in my case the owner of the copyright of Jimi Hendrix playing Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) was objecting to it being used to accompany a video of my son on his gap year in Africa.
The only option I was offered was to replace it with other music that was not copyright, with YouTube offering me a selection of music.
YouTube did not informed who the copyright holder was. I attempted to search the internet to find the copyright owner but without success. If it is not possible to discover who the copyright holder is how are we to secure permission to include our favourite music? Although I had bought the CD (and the vinyl album before that) I accept that the IP and performer rights need to be protected and would have at least been interested in discovering the cost of securing the right to upload the track.
As well as losing out on a business opportunity the holder(s) of the IP and performer rights have also lost out on the free advertising they would have obtained by leaving my content unchanged. My frequent response to music/video I discover on YouTube is to purchase the relevant CD/DVD. In the last month I purchased the Pink Floyd CD Ummagumma and DVD Live at Pompeii.
So my suggestion would be that rather than forcing YouTube users to remove copyright material, such YouTube users should be required to include a link to Amazon so that others who come across the material can purchase it (A link to Itunes or similar would also work).
Finally, I searched the YouTube site in vain in for an email link to contact YouTube. I wished to: (1) ask YouTube for the copyright holder's contact details and (2) offer my suggestions for improving the site. I now understand there is no such link. I accept that such an email address might not be workable given the vast number of emails they would probably get, but it is a shame that there are not more local addresses that we can write to.
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