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RE: Stupid Copyright Automation (Soundcloud)....
Next time record a video of your hands and the keyboard while playing and post it on YT first. Leave a bit of space at the beginning or at the end and add a chord/note/hand-clap/phone ringing that does not belong in the piece. They would have a hard time proving you are not the one playing. Posting live music is all I do, and I rarely get a copyright claim and never faced a take-down.
The age of the piece makes it impossible to get a copyright claim, but these days the bologna eating lawyers manage to get some claims on arrangement, and know with certainty that most can't afford a lawyer to defend a living room recording of self.
I understand the right (as a professional musician myself) of an artist to copyright their own performance of the piece... but it is really hard for automation (at the moment) to tell the difference between individual performances... so they tend to be a bit heavy handed at the moment.
However, they did take my dispute, and restored the track a week or so later.