It’s a week since Universal Music Group decided I’d copied one of the songs they own and Facebook took the rights to my song away from me.

I uploaded a snippet of my song Dance With The Angels to Facebook and it took Universal about 5 minutes to claim copyright ownership. Within half an hour I had put in a counter-claim to Facebook and since then I’ve heard nothing.

Dance With The Angels was released as a track on my first album Present Tense in May 2021. I’ve uploaded three separate videos containing the whole song to YouTube and as anyone who has dealt with YouTube will know, if there’s a copyright issue YouTube will find it in seconds. But no-one has claimed a copyright infringement on YouTube.

Dance With The Angels has had well over 20,000 streams on Spotify and again no-one has claimed a copyright infringement.

There’s a simple reason for this. Dance With The Angels is an original work that isn’t based on someone else’s work or copied from anyone else. It’s my fucking song 100%. Except when you post 30 seconds of it onto Facebook and then Universal Music Group claim it’s there’s.

You might deduce that I’m angry about this. I am. Bloody angry. I’m angry that anyone would think that I would blatantly copy another person’s song and I’m angry that ownership of the song is claimed by someone else and there is seemingly nothing you can do about that.

In effect I’ve had 30 seconds of my song stolen from me by two huge institutions, Universal and Facebook. Both of these institutions would like you to think they are altruistic, that they put the originators and consumers first. Wrong. They are money grabbing shits who steal original work away from creators and will take as long as they like to correct their mistakes.

So, one week on Universal can still go fuck themselves.