Uploaded January 2008 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The story of Beethoven and his music written by Israela Margalit, the eminent pianistin and author, and presented by Sir Peter Ustinov.
The oiginal video "Beethoven and his music (7 of 15)" is removed by YouTube after complaint from Saarländischer Rundfunk.
The original video contained an 8 mins.clip from a clip in an 1 hour-program on DISCOVERY public TV channel SOME 20 YEARS AGO - sent to all human beings in Europe.
These 8 mins. contained music played brilliantly by Saarländischer Rundfunks Symphony Orchestra (alas!).
I could'nt dream of, that these 8 mins. would violate Saarländischer Rundfunks copyright having in mind, that they many years earlier had shared it with a good part of the World, and there since then may lay THOUSANDS of videocopies around with THE SAME EIGHT MINUTES.
Lesson learnt:
Beware of Saarländischer Rundfunk, whos management obviously is extremely small minded and has bad publicity in preference to good publicity (which I think my video was).
Instead they have made me a CRIMINAL for the rest of my life. Es tröstet mich einigerweise doch, dass es sich wahrscheinlich nicht um viele Jahre handelt, weil ich vor drei Jahre mein zweites Schlaganfall hatte.
The only thing, that torments me, is the threat from YouTube, that they will delete all my channel, should I once again unaware violate anyones intellectual property!
For the moment my favorite piece of music is Händels wonderfull "Calm thou my soul" and will continue to be for some time to come.
Carl Vendler.
The story of Beethoven and his music written by Israela Margalit, the eminent pianistin and author, and presented by Sir Peter Ustinov.
The oiginal video "Beethoven and his music (7 of 15)" is removed by YouTube after complaint from Saarländischer Rundfunk.
The original video contained an 8 mins.clip from a clip in an 1 hour-program on DISCOVERY public TV channel SOME 20 YEARS AGO - sent to all human beings in Europe.
These 8 mins. contained music played brilliantly by Saarländischer Rundfunks Symphony Orchestra (alas!).
I could'nt dream of, that these 8 mins. would violate Saarländischer Rundfunks copyright having in mind, that they many years earlier had shared it with a good part of the World, and there since then may lay THOUSANDS of videocopies around with THE SAME EIGHT MINUTES.
Lesson learnt:
Beware of Saarländischer Rundfunk, whos management obviously is extremely small minded and has bad publicity in preference to good publicity (which I think my video was).
Instead they have made me a CRIMINAL for the rest of my life. Es tröstet mich einigerweise doch, dass es sich wahrscheinlich nicht um viele Jahre handelt, weil ich vor drei Jahre mein zweites Schlaganfall hatte.
The only thing, that torments me, is the threat from YouTube, that they will delete all my channel, should I once again unaware violate anyones intellectual property!
For the moment my favorite piece of music is Händels wonderfull "Calm thou my soul" and will continue to be for some time to come.
Carl Vendler.
