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Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-their-toys-and-going-home dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Tempest in a teapot by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Glad your feeling better now.

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  2. Re:Thank goodness... by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  3. Re:Does Youtube get a cut of the sales? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. ban the internet by jasonbrown · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Does Youtube get a cut of the sales? by Darundal · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  6. YouTube thoughtfully provide... by ciderVisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. I record all my music off Youtube by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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