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YouTube row with Warner silences bands
Georgina Littlejohn22 Dec 2008
Music videos from artists such as Madonna and Led Zeppelin have been removed from YouTube in a row over licensing.
Video from acts signed to Warner Music Group will no longer be available on the video sharing website after a contract dispute between the two firms.
Both are locked in a battle over licensing agreements for Warner's music videos and the fee that Google-owned YouTube pays the label when videos are watched.
Warner said: "We are working actively to find a resolution."
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This is the most retarded thing ever, how does WMG expect people to find out about some of the artist on their various labels?!?! I strongly urge anyband under WMG to give them a big "FU" and leave otherwise no one will be able to listen to their music. Also, i encourage Dj's at radio stations or radio station owners boycotting all WMG music. Now WMG's music can be heard virtually no where.
- Pissedoffdude, St. Louis, USA, 15/05/2009 01:25
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This just show how greedy record labels are, YouTube is the best way to promote a band, before record companies used to PAY loads for TV / radio stations to play their artists, what record companies are REALLY affraid is that now, the viewer decides what he wants to see.
- Tulio, London UK, 22/12/2008 10:31
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