Warner Music Group (WMG), YouTube, Copyright Laws and the Nettizens. Another rant

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Volley #4, with some new information for you folks about the WMG situation, and what I believe we should be doing in all this. The thing that's humorous to me in all this is that I'm being contacted by a lot of places asking for interviews or information like I'm the "leader of the revolution" here. Ya wear a camo jacket and suddenly you're leading revolutions? good thing I'm not wearing the beret...

But this is a little bit of a rant, and a little bit of a "we need to make a social revolution". I may make a second video with the stuff I left out of this one because I left out a good 5-6 minutes of "who to talk to" and "what to do", but something tells me you all pretty much know that part already. Keep the fax machines humming at WMG and Google/YouTube. Social engineering isn't fast, but the results are so much better than brute force.

The other thing I'm finding interesting is that YouTube has stopped e-mailing me about audio takedowns, and they're just muting things without the courtesy of letting me know about it. So if one of my educational vids is muted, please let me know here? Thank you much!

Some links of interest

WMG "Hotline" for people to call and complain about their practices:
212-275-2600 But don't hold your breath.

US Copyright law for music distribution :
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap11.html

DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&am...

"File Sharers Aren't Stealing, But The RIAA Is.." article on Techdirt from 2003
http://techdirt.com/articles/20030922/027245.shtml

Advertising with youtube info quoted
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77442

"Who owns What" media resource on Time-Warner
http://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=timewarner

US Copyright history
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1a.html

SSRN paper on the "Happy Birthday" song
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624

I would quote the e-mail the producer sent me, but that's a copyright violation and I'm not in the mood to beat lawyers off with the shark zapper.

And, finally, easy contact info for these people, so you can send them a fax or a phone call if you so desire.

Warner Music Group
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019

Phone: 1-212-275-2000
Fax: 1-212-757-3985
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DMCA Complaints
YouTube, Inc.
901 Cherry Ave.
Second Floor
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Fax: 650.872.8513
Email: copyright@youtube.com
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Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001

And, yes Virginia, Google DOES in fact own YouTube. they bought them out when Google video was getting the pants beaten off of them by YouTube. old business strategy, when you're losing, buy out the other guy.

Oh, free faxes from the internet : http://www.faxzero.com

One of the articles from an interview I was asked for by "MetroActive" :
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/02.25.09/arts-youtube-0908.html

There, I said it, and I feel better.

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[TheTrainTicket]

Youtube was originally meant for fun. This copyright crap is getting out of hand.

It's actually been getting worse lately, which leads me to think that YT is reaching its boiling point. We're not going to stop using the songs we want to use, and they can't get rid of us, there's too many. Eventually they'll have to cave.

[TheOriginalBendejo]

This goes well beyond "what the fuck?" lol You are the man, you really know your shit.

FUCK WMG AND THEIR COPYRIGHT LAWS!!!! THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE!!!

[QwibProductions]

Why the FUCK does WMG take down songs if it gets the artist more views due to people wanting to check out the band/artist? Other than greed, which corrupts our fucking country.

[wububububruno25]

if wmg has sued the song on your video, then reupload the same video with the song that you had before being deleted by wmg, and keep spamming

[TheHutchy11]

wtf i never copyrighted that club cant handle now i added a webcam vid and a pic and other stuff thats not copyright you idiot

[KawaiiKemonomimi]

-comment removed by the WMG pussies-

[bryanIDK8]

I HATE COPYRIGHT THEY SHUT DOWN MY VIDEO AND DIDNT COPY THE SAME VIDEO WTF

[WarnerMusicGroup2004]

Go to our website and read our Laws of Copyright.

[wow1022]

i had a video of my audio amplifier i built and played eagles- hotel california

through it and the whole video got deleted... not just the audio disabled FUCK YOU BIG COORPORATIONS ARE YOU SERIOUS

[TheEZPAXIIChannel]

Yeah...COPYRIGHT WMG ARE GREEDY IDIOTS.

[GTRaycer]

The problem, in a nutshell, is corporate GREED and TYRANNY!!

[noobie1890]

Wait.....so I can't use Requiem of a Dream in m video?