{"id":2634,"date":"2009-03-23T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2009-03-23T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:52:27","slug":"warner-music-forget-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/03\/23\/warner-music-forget-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Music?  Forget Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen my occasional grumbling about Warner going out of its way to pull down music videos in which it has some rights from YouTube.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/23\/business\/media\/23warner.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">they&#8217;ve really stepped it up<\/a>, now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Winter Wonderland,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and she posted it on <a title=\"More news about YouTube.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/youtube\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Weeks later, she received an e-mail message from YouTube: her video was being removed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as a result of a third-party notification by the Warner Music Group,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which owns the copyright to the Christmas carol.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Ms. Weybret\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s video, family home videos that included a portion of a song playing in the background have been removed, as have any number of videos that use music in goofy ways, from montages to mash-ups.<\/p>\n<p>When a man posted a video of himself using music to teach sign language, the audio was switched off because he lacked the proper copyright clearance to use Foreigner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1980s song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waiting for a Girl Like You.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Next time you&#8217;re tempted to buy a CD or download a track from iTunes\/Amazon, check out the publisher\/label, and decide if you want to reward this kind of behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen my occasional grumbling about Warner going out of its way to pull down music videos in which it has some rights from YouTube.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it seems they&#8217;ve really stepped it up, now: In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,30,3],"tags":[52,144,143],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-music","category-society","tag-copyright","tag-dmca","tag-warner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}