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Labels vs. Fun Part II: WMG Pulls Videos From Artists' Channels

Jan 8, 5:12pm The Tripwire
Labels vs. Fun Part II: WMG Pulls Videos From Artists' Channels After we did some bitching yesterday about major labels joining together to further milk money from consumers who actually like watching and sharing music videos, things got a little juicier when we were tipped off to some potential shady business. We mentioned in the story that Warner Music Group had demanded that YouTube remove videos of its artists' songs and making the videos on their own pages to be un-embeddable. After the story was posted, a tipster e-mailed to let us know that WMG didn't just stop at YouTube in general [...]
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