I did appeal the strike - but the strike still counts against me. Just receiving a claim is a mark against you under Google’s system, regardless of the outcome. And only using the Google music everyone uses over and over and over to avoid false Content ID flags is a temporary work around for a broken system, not a long term plan.
Music licensing has never previously allowed a copyright claimant to just seize ad revenue on their say so, either. So we are talking about new paradigms.
And in the case of films that are unavailable during clearance issues, that’s typically because the producers only bought rights for theatrical distribution, and then wound up with clearance issues when they wanted to release a home video version. Heavy Metal comes to mind. And TV shows, such as WKRP in Cincinnati.
