Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Copyright Rant 2.0

This link will take you to an article talking about how BMG, Beyonce's label, has just removed music videos from Beyonce's official YouTube channel for copyright infringement. I cannot confirm how many videos were on the channel before this happened (it's my damn ears that keeps me away) but it appears only one actual video is still up.  I'm not going to go into a long, drawn-out, math-filled rant about how ridiculous this is.  Because that's pretty obvious.  I'm simply going to ask some questions and get out of the way.



How does Beyonce putting up her own videos cause harm to BMG?

Would this not be considered incredibly cheap advertising?

Why would a company want to hinder their artist from reaching new fans?