I've been uploading every day to [youtube](http://www.youtube.com/@HonestFiddling) from my [365 tunes book](https://honestfiddling.com), and this is the third time I've gotten a copyright flag for a traditional tune. I've disputed and won each dispute so far because a lot of these tunes have been public domain for centuries. I have a new one as of this morning for this tune, Lady Mary Hay's Scotch Measure.  
  
Anyone else who gets these when you upload traditional tunes to youtube, make sure to dispute them, and just be clear about how old the tune is with as much verifiable detail as possible. Be careful to be unemotional yet make sure you make it clear how obvious it is. Yes it's ridiculous, but these flags are just frrom machines scanning everything based on some audio; youtube itself has no idea how silly it is for people to try to claim copyright for fiddle tunes, it's just part of a big automated system.  
  
For example, this is what I sent for this tune in the copyright dispute:

This is a traditional Scottish fiddle tune published at least as early as 1792 in a book named Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, on page 27. Those who edited that book have both been dead for centuries, Niel Gow who died in 1807, and Nathaniel Gow who died in 1831.

This is a link to a PDF scan of an original copy of the book from 1792, and on page 27 this tune can be found clearly and in its entirety: [https://imslp.org/wiki/A\_Third\_Collection\_of\_Strathspey\_Reels,\_etc.\_(Gow,\_Niel)](https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Third_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels,_etc._(Gow,_Niel))

Yet another YouTube Copyright Dispute for an obviously traditional tune