Warner Music defecates on own doorstep
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “I’m furious right now,” says Juliet Weybret (left), 15, in a YouTube video.
“See, you may have noticed that the video of me singing and playing on piano Winter Wonderland, that good old Christmas song that everyone loves – I love it, you guys loved it – it’s not on my channel anymore! It’s gone!”
Then, “Check this out,”" says another angry YouTuber, Lisa Lavie, (right), linked to under Juliet’s post.
“My mum’s one and only video on YouTube just got removed!”
She goes on, “Like Warner Bros removed your video?! Like, what does that mean for the rest of us who sing all of these songs all of the time?!”
Check out her video (below) to find out. 
Meanwhile, that should, of course, be Warner Music, not Warner Bros. And that in turn means the former is also tarnishing the latter’s already seriously grubby image.
It also means Juliet and the incredulous Lisa have already told all of their friends, who’ve told all their friends, who are now telling all of their friends ….
And so it goes.
Excellent work, Warner.
So what’s it all about?
Juliet features in a Los Angeles Times story on Warner Music’s mind-boggling stupidity, which springs from pure, unadulterated greed.
And, run by Canada’s Edgar Bronfman jr, the company seems determined to continued defecating all over its own doorstep, as well as alienating fans and potential consumers of Warner cookie cutter ‘product’.
“Google has taken the concept of dumbing down to a new level which’ll bring joy to the icy little hearts of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA,” said p2pnet a little while back.
TechCrunch says it best, we went on. Under the headline YouTube Full Of Creepy, Soundless Music Videos, “YouTube has been testing a new way of combating copyright violations on the site” — ie, removing the audio, leaving the video with a, “wasteland of music videos that are creepily silent” as the result.
Said Wired »»»
Major label Warner Music Group made big waves with its proclamation that it wasn`t being paid enough for its music being played on YouTube, and its attendant demand that Google remove all of its music from the site.
As Mashable mentioned, YouTube is now muting the audio tracks on some of those tracks, leaving the video online.
However, as it did not mention, all four of its examples – Albert King, Seal, John Michael Montgomery and Jason Mraz â are on the Warner Music Group label. The muting appears to be part of Google`s response to the label`s demand that they pull all of its tracks, because it wants more money for them than Google is willing to pay. Some tracks by these artists still play with sound, so this appears to be an ongoing process as YouTube identifies the tracks.
A Warner spokeswoman later said the muting policy was, “Google’s idea as a way to remove the music at the request of Warner Music Group and other labels who don’t want it on there”.
Ahhhhh! So it’s Google’s fault, not Warner’s. heh
“YouTube provides content owners, including Warner, access to identification tools so they can elect to monetize or remove user’s uploads that match the copyright owner’s reference material,” says the LA Times, adding:
“Warner chose the latter.”
Warner says it’s working toward “negotiating a contract that would put its videos back on YouTube” but (sigh), “Until then, we simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide”.
Quick! Better go tell all those pissed-off ex-consumers.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for more fun and games. 
Los Angeles Times – Warner Music vs. YouTube casualties include a banjo-playing ‘Star Wars’ fan, January 26, 2009
icy little hearts – Google dumbs down videos: literally, January 15, 2009|
TechCrunch – YouTube Full Of Creepy, Soundless Music Videos, January 14, 2009
Wired – Warner Music Group and Others, January 14, 2009
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January 28th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Wait a minute!
SHE was singing the lyrics and playing the musical composition on the piano?!
So the “Record”-Label claimed infringement?
How come?
Had they created a phono-record (as defined in US copyrightlaw) of her performance and that’s why they are claiming infringement of some rights they might have in that RECORDING?
Unless they are also the rightsholders in the musical composition and the lyrics (and not only the rightsholders in a certain instance of a fixed presentation of those 2 elements by a certain performer) they simply have no right to demand anything since it isn’t their rights that allegedly got infringed! (Royalty collecting societies maybe, but definetly not someone that has just rights in a certain recorded performance!)
IANAL though!
January 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
It suprises me that they (big 4) have not targeted someone who is not of sound mind as of yet, with all the tech related violent crimes as of late, you think they might have sent one c&d letter to someone who would be willing to take up arms and march into their headquarters and start laying down some supressing fire. but unfortunately that would provide them with far too much legal media ammo “see!!! these music pierats are eeeevil! and insannne! they cannot be trusted!!! we must lock up everyone who downloads music illegally! then tattoo them with barcodes and implant chips in them so we can monitor them all the time!”