A few days ago, I wrote about a very similar problem that I'm going through at this very moment.
Basically, I recorded myself playing a song that was written 133 years ago, whose composer died 118 years ago.
The copyright claim is that I used a melody owned by ASCAP, ICE_CS. But the melody is long in public domain. It is impossible for this melody to be copyrighted. (Also, just to cover the bases of "what if...", I want to clarify that the melody has been correctly identified as the melody written (and published) 133 years ago.)
And yet, they have claimed copyright on my music and monitized it. I, on the other hand, can't monitize it at all because my channel is very small.
Basically, I recorded myself playing a song that was written 133 years ago, whose composer died 118 years ago.
The copyright claim is that I used a melody owned by ASCAP, ICE_CS. But the melody is long in public domain. It is impossible for this melody to be copyrighted. (Also, just to cover the bases of "what if...", I want to clarify that the melody has been correctly identified as the melody written (and published) 133 years ago.)
And yet, they have claimed copyright on my music and monitized it. I, on the other hand, can't monitize it at all because my channel is very small.
This is theft.