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Warner Music Group (WMG), YouTube, Copyright Laws and the Nettizens. Another rant

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CLICK MORE FOR LINKS!!!! Volley #4, with some new information for you folks about the WMG situation, and what I believe we should be doing in all this. The thing that's humorous to me in all this is that I'm being contacted by a lot of places asking for interviews or information like I'm the "leader of the revolution" here. Ya wear a camo jacket and suddenly you're leading revolutions? good thing I'm not wearing the beret... But this is a little bit of a rant, and a little bit of a "we need to make a social revolution". I may make a second video with the stuff I left out of this one because I left out a good 5-6 minutes of "who to talk to" and "what to do", but something tells me you all pretty much know that part already. Keep the fax machines humming at WMG and Google/YouTube. Social engineering isn't fast, but the results are so much better than brute force. The other thing I'm finding interesting is that YouTube has stopped e-mailing me about audio takedowns, and they're just muting things without the courtesy of letting me know about it. So if one of my educational vids is muted, please let me know here? Thank you much! Some links of interest WMG "Hotline" for people to call and complain about their practices: 212-275-2600 But don't hold your breath. US Copyright law for music distribution : http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap11.html DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/473/207.html "File Sharers Aren't Stealing, But The RIAA Is.." article on Techdirt from 2003 http://techdirt.com/articles/20030922/027245.shtml Advertising with youtube info quoted http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77442 "Who owns What" media resource on Time-Warner http://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=timewarner US Copyright history http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1a.html SSRN paper on the "Happy Birthday" song http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624 I would quote the e-mail the producer sent me, but that's a copyright violation and I'm not in the mood to beat lawyers off with the shark zapper. And, finally, easy contact info for these people, so you can send them a fax or a phone call if you so desire. Warner Music Group 75 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10019 Phone: 1-212-275-2000 Fax: 1-212-757-3985 - DMCA Complaints YouTube, Inc. 901 Cherry Ave. Second Floor San Bruno, CA 94066 USA Fax: 650.872.8513 Email: copyright@youtube.com - Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: +1 650-253-0000 Fax: +1 650-253-0001 And, yes Virginia, Google DOES in fact own YouTube. they bought them out when Google video was getting the pants beaten off of them by YouTube. old business strategy, when you're losing, buy out the other guy. Oh, free faxes from the internet : http://www.faxzero.com One of the articles from an interview I was asked for by "MetroActive" : http://www.metroactive.com/metro/02.25.09/arts-youtube-0908.html There, I said it, and I feel better.