YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videos

by admin March 24, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Thousands of user-created videos- or at least their audio tracks – have disappeared from YouTube, and the question is who’s fault is it?

The New York Times reports that many YouTube users have found themselves in the same position as high school sophomore Juliet Weybret, who posted a video of herself playing piano and singing “Winter Wonderland.”

Her video was removed “as a result of a third-party notification by the Warner Music Group,” YouTube informed her.

Read more: ZDNet.com