Guns N Roses - Better (Download 2006) AUDIO REMOVED BY UMG!

then delete the whole video.

cant here anything even an overdub

If you turned up at a live concert and recorded this yourself:

UMG does not own either the visual footage nor the audio track - You do !

UMG has no legal basis upon which to make any copyright claim any more than if you recorded it as a cover with your own band playing the song and uploaded it to YouTube.

That doesn't mean it was legal for him to film it. Most band concerts have a no filming policy.

Show me a legal basis upon which UMG can claim footage you filmed yourself is their property.

I'm not saying I had one. I'm just saying it was probably illegal to film this. What I don't understand is why they take off an ametuer recording like this but you can listen to the whole album on myspace.

Intellectual property law and copyright law are a bitch to navigate. Youtube airs on the side of caution and takes any potential trouble away. The only way that this could be reversed is if some kind of defence was made under the Youtube rules of fair usage. However, as the entire audio and video was posted in its entirety (not clips used as part of a larger video) it wouldn't stick. Most record companies aren't so anal about bootlegs though :)

UMG still owns the rights to the distribution of a material that they own the copyright for.

"UMG has no legal basis upon which to make any copyright claim any more than if you recorded it as a cover with your own band playing the song and uploaded it to YouTube." - This is an inaccurate statement. Allow me to provide precedent: WMG pulled the audio to ALL covers of any material by Prince. Even just guys doing bedroom covers. Their copyright, they can do what they want with it.

Video evidence that Axl DOES occasionally show up for gigs.

Without videos, nobody would believe it.

UMG probably thinks the sales on his latest album fell off a cliff due to P2P rather than it being a mishmash of suck.

"You downloading mutherf*ckers?!" - Axl Rose. He actually said this in this concert.