Warner Music Pulls YouTube Videos

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down.

The order could affect hundreds of thousands of videos clips, as it covers Warner Music’s recorded artists as well as the rights for songs published by its Warner/Chappell unit, which includes many artists not signed to Warner Music record labels.

The talks fell apart early on Saturday because Warner wants a bigger share of the huge revenue potential of YouTube’s massive visitor traffic. There were no reports on what Warner was seeking.

“We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,” Warner said in a statement…

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Which is basically Atlantic (Bad Boy) and Warner Bros. Records. Let’s hope this means that Diddy has to take down his utterly corny, douche-chill inducing “Diddy video blogs.”

I am not sure how soon this all goes into effect, so I had to go peep some MURSTv while I still could. His videos are inspirational. MURS=the epitome of real. You always hear about how people from LA are fake as shit and wack, but MURS is that stand out motherfucka.

Peep Murs – Yesterday & Today (Video) after the break. Some funny youtube comments for this video, and by funny I mean:

…some people are fucking dumb.

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Murs – Yesterday & Today (Video)

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