Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube

iammani writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down. ... The talks fell apart early on Saturday because Warner wants a bigger share of the huge revenue potential of YouTube's massive visitor traffic. There were no reports on what Warner was seeking. 'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,' Warner said in a statement." Warner's deal with YouTube to make those videos available came just prior to YouTube's acquisition by Google.

Comments

Re:Tempest in a teapot

[ColdWetDog]

Glad your feeling better now.

Re:Thank goodness...

[Enderandrew]

Instead of a take-down notice, is there any chance that Google will Rick-roll all the Warner links? Please make this happen.

Re:Does Youtube get a cut of the sales?

[Waffle Iron]

The labels don't mind paying MTV to play their videos

It looks like the labels are doubly incompetent: MTV takes their money, but then it doesn't bother to play any music videos at all.

ban the internet

[jasonbrown]

I think Warner should make a bill for congress to pass banning the internet as it has been terribly harmful to the recording industries CD/retail store distribution model. Look at all the harm the internet has done to the recording industry executives . And while we are discussing these serious problems - non-label music is really infringing on their profitability as well - also the internet's fault. So I say we all write our representatives and ask them to support banning the internet so we can go back to a more fair and industry friendly music distribution model. Thank you for your time. You may now go back to your regularly scheduled program.

Re:Does Youtube get a cut of the sales?

[Darundal]

Actually, I would consider MTV to be doing a public service there...

Wait... MTV plays music videos?

[RexDevious]

I know they used to play music videos, but I also know that my 486 66Mhz computer used to play cutting edge video games. At around the same period in history if I'm not mistaken.

I would venture to guess that YouTube is by far the most prominent way of distributing the multi-million dollar music videos that record companies make to promote the sale of albums. I'd also venture to guess that Warner never bothered to find out one way or the other. More likely, they just got the idea in their heads that "TV = Spend Money to Make Money" and "Internet = Loose Money Unless Google is Involved" and left it at that.

Let's just all agree now not to give them a government bailout when thinking like this drives them to the brink of bankruptcy, OK?

YouTube thoughtfully provide...

[ciderVisor]

YouTube thoughtfully provide a facility to replace the audio track on your uploaded video with another public domain/Creative Commons track. I was asked to either remove my home-made video to Rainbow's 'Eyes Of The World' completely, or to replace the copyrighted audio with something else from their library. I chose Tiny Tim singing 'Tiptoe Through The Tulips'. Somewhat surreal. I don't think it will reflect well on Rainbow's hired bull terriers, and ultimately it will not reflect well on Rainbow, either.

I record all my music off Youtube

[Joce640k]

I just hold a microphone up to the speakers and record the song using Windows Sound Recorder.

It's very easy to do and the sound quality is perfectly acceptable because I only listen on the bus.

Re:What? Did you get that gem?

[Joce640k]

The only one that needs removing is Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up".