At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:11AM from the and-stop-humming dept.

Snaller writes "Tech News Today does what the name says — it's a podcast reporting on Tech news, Monday to Friday. They, like Slashdot, reported on the Megaupload vs. Universal copyright dispute. But during their coverage, they played a snippet of the music video and immediately Universal Music Group had the news podcast yanked from YouTube. Tech News Today has outlets other than YouTube, but should a music company have the right to have a news podcast removed on copyright grounds, when it's not even clear that said company has had any copyrights violated?"

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Re:And this is why SOPA is so terrifying by honestmonkey · 2011-12-15 03:38 · Score: 5, Funny

That snippet was just the piece I needed to complete the song! I've put it together from a lot of other "fair use" sources and almost had the whole thing. But I missed the podcast! And I almost had the song FOR FREE! Damn UMG, damn them all to hell!

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