Infamous Rebecca Black YouTube Video 'Friday' Taken Down Over Copyright Issue?
from the grab-some-popcorn dept
If you haven't yet come across the phenomenon of Rebecca Black and the song Friday, I'll just assume you've been in a coma for the past couple of months. Back in April, we noted that there appeared to be a copyright fight brewing around the video, and whether or not the rights were owned by Ark Music Factory or Black herself. Even the founders of Ark Music Factory didn't seem to agree. The whole thing was a mess waiting to happen...So it's interesting to see that the video, which had well over 100 million views, appears to have been taken off of YouTube due to a copyright claim. The message on the video says the claim was from Rebecca herself:
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Filed Under: copyright, friday, rebecca black
Companies: ark music factory, youtube
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Rather than teaching kids to learn an instrument and develop their own style, the Rebecca Black scenario just tells kids that they can't have a famous song unless they're rich enough to pay for someone to write really bad lyrics and autotune the crap out of your voice.
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It's hilarious that somebody thought people would pay for it. Kinda like "being hit on the head lessons."
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Infamy, infamy - they've all got it ...
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Fame versus infamy
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Probably due to the Hitler reacts meme
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCVyoESLYY
I know IHOP always gets my money when hear this one....
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Hey, I use that same checklist every morning.
Still not a zombie yet...but I wonder if I'd use the checklist if I was?
Pancakes are great, just don't put syrup on them.
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Miss Black unplugged -- on ABC morning show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBzT2pv1Jc
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A small correction...
As for the topic... meh. It's not like I wanted to go looking for it just to be a statistic.
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$2.99? Are you kidding?
If you look at it the right way, you can enjoy it the same way you can enjoy watching kids playing make-believe.
Granted, some parts (like where d's and t's get intentionally silenced, so you get words like "di'n't", and that whole nasal voice thing she's got going on) really grate on my nerves, but she's just a kid, right?
Anyway, even in my most charitable mood, there's no way in Hell I'd pay money to watch that thing. The $2.99 price must have been some sort of mistake, as I can't see anyone REALLY thinking she'd make more than $9.00 once she, her mom and her dad paid up.
HM
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Finally something good came out of copycrap.
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While I understand the sentiment.
I think that I would rather be rickrolled then ever have to hear that again, but the pancake song was pretty catchy though.
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definitely some sort of fight behind the scenes...
"Thanks for all the messages regarding the $2.99 fee added to Friday video, I have NOTHING to do with this!!"
"PS...My Manager and Lawyer are on this and are going to get to the bottom of this! Stay tuned..."
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Re: definitely some sort of fight behind the scenes...
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Mebbeh..
It's an interesting perspective on deciding the best term length for copyright. How long SHOULD she be allowed to suppress her own speech in order let this ugly, ugly thing fade into obscurity?
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