"Hi there, ThePorcupine,

this is Melanie from SoundCloud writing. I'm getting in touch because we've received a report about some uploaded material allegedly infringing somebody else's copyright:

http://soundcloud.com/theporcupine/noonewantstolisten

If you don't own the rights to this/these track(s) or don't have the permission from the artist, label or rights holder to upload, publish and distribute the material, this content cannot be hosted on SoundCloud.

In the meantime, the material has been hidden. Please get back to us within 2 working days if you have the correct permissions before we delete the material permanently. If you feel like this report has been sent by mistake, it would be great if you could provide us with any documents in your possession that show these permissions. Feel free to upload your own music anytime and please don't hesitate to contact me for further information.

For reference:
Our terms of use: http://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
Our Community Guidelines: http://soundcloud.com/community-guidelines

Best regards,

Melanie
SoundCloud"

Reply


Hi there Melanie

I'm pretty certain this doesn't infringe copyright - it's an MP3 of a home
made cassette tape that was never for sale and never released. It's not on
any label and I only uploaded it because it's unavailable in any other
format. I've attached the photo of the cassette tape it was taken from,
which was made back in 1993 and the studio mentioned is no longer in
operation. There's no copyright information on the cassette or cover and as
I said, the songs were never released or available commercially, in any
format at all - these songs were never put on any other release. If
necessary, I could probably get the permission of the artist but didn't
think it would be an issue as it's not under copyright or on any record
label.

Thanks for your help
Kay

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Hi Kay,

Thanks for your feedback. Please understand that its not up to us to decide whether a takedown claim is valid or not. By legal regulation we are obliged to act on content being reported as infringing others' copyright. We received the takedown notification by Rebecca Rowaichi (TRC Management; beck@trcmanagement.com). Please get directly in touch with her to resolve the case.

Thanks and best regards,
Melanie
SoundCloud

So get fingers crossed you won't get in trouble...

May be worth asking - I wonder if the band don't actually want this stuff out and available as it's not their best stuff by any means?

When I think of the horrible overproduced very first Genesis-record and the fact that it is reissued all the time, so that some record blokes still get money from it our Elboys should not be ashamed of that Soft stuff. Hey, they could play their instruments well enough that you even recognize their love for Santana and no megalomaniac producer spoiled their stuff with cheesy strings, that echo/answer effect with the backing vocal girl is really cute and inventive and it was (at least for me) a pleasure to hear Guy sound so temperamental
So if anyone, Beck or the Elbows read this, don't be angry on Kay, I always wanted to know how that mysterious "So it goes" sounds for Guy talked about it in his radio shows when he played the Verve track with the same name...

Thanks so much for trying to up both, Kay. It's not often you get to hear something so rare.

If it's the squirm factor of early works being made available, suppose that's fair enough. Though a fair chunk of elbowfans' content could well be flying close to the wind on that basis too. I've said it from the outset, but if Beck or the band want anything removing from there, just shout.