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Death Cab For Cutie get Copyright Claim from Its Own Label

January 25th, 2009 by Dave Allen

Oh the irony… Death Cab For Cutie get a copyright infringement takedown, for a video on their web site, from their own record label. Full story here.

Excerpt: “And yet the irony – for those frustrated by the clash between the web culture of sharing and the music labels’ desire to protect copyright – could not be clearer. If the actions of the labels are preventing their own artists from sharing the music they created, are these copyright notices more detrimental than beneficial?”

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3 Comments :: You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Tags: Copyright, Death Cab For Cutie, Takedown, Video, YouTube

• J. Wallace
  

  First, allow me to say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaahahahah. Ha. Ha ha. Ha. heh.

  Second, it’s probably about time those Jurassic-age copyright laws get an overhaul. No, wait a second, why bother? Replace the doddering clueless jellybrains in charge of making hay out of this crap.

  No, wait. Never mind. OK everybody, NO MORE DEALING WITH THE MAJORS. Savvy? OK, that’s solved. Back to work.

  January 26th, 2009 at 6:13 am
• Death Cab For Cutie y lo que tiene estar en Warner « Songs To Keep…
  

  [...] Lo que tiene estar en Warner, amigos. Esto es como cuando tu novia se enfada con una amiga tuya: es mejor que te alejes de la segunda hasta que se les pase el enfado.. Tratar de mediar a veces funciona. Después de este consejo de autoayuda, la información: Warner obliga a Death Cab For Cutie a quitar de su web oficial un video alojado en Youtube alegando un uso ilegal de los derechos de Copiright. Sí, relean. La cosa es que Warner retiró sus videos de youtube en un movimiento de dudosa eficacia estratégica, así que obliga a sus bandas a hacer uso de los servicios del menciondo portal. ¿Se imaginan la llamada? ‘Hola Ben, soy yo, Phil, te llamo de Warner, es que… verás, hemos visto que teneis un embed de youtube en vuesta web… sabes que al jefe no le gusta…”; “Ya Phil, pero…”; “Pero nada, Ben, quítalo, van contra los derechos de autor”: “Pero son nuestros…”; “Quítalo, Ben. Adiós”. Abajo tienen una cosa comunista. Desde aquí. [...]

  January 27th, 2009 at 2:27 am
• J. Wallace
  

  Well, I suppose I get what this writer’s saying, but Warners are still a bleating dinosaur going down, down, down. There’s really no excuse for the nonsense….wake up and smell the microprocessors!

  PS. Yahoo’s Babelfish is a wonderful thing.

  January 27th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

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