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title: "The future is here today: You can’t play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions"
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published_at: "2018-09-12T21:12:35+00:00"
author: "Stefan Grund"
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  - "facebook"
  - "musik"
  - "netzkultur"
  - "sony"
  - "urheberrecht"
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# The future is here today: You can’t play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions

[Link →](https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html)

Boing Boing-Posting von letzter Woche, das zeigt, was für ein Wahnsinn nach der [Pro-Upload-Filter-Abstimmung von heute](https://eay.cc/2018/europaparlament-stimmt-fuer-upload-filter-und-ein-eu-leistungsschutzrecht/) absofort noch viel häufiger auf uns zukommen wird:

> [James Rhodes](https://twitter.com/JRhodesPianist), a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Facebook account, but it didn’t go up — [Facebook’s copyright filtering system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement](https://twitter.com/JRhodesPianist/status/1036929244654460928) because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds‘ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.