HeyPeterman

Peter Liao is a marketer/product developer/event planner focusing on the entertainment industry and new social media.

He possesses such a wide variety of interests that you would think he had multiple personalities.

Expect to read posts pertaining to the music industry, new media and technology, social politics, philanthropy, and more.

January 24, 2009

YouTube Community vs. WMG + Google

I have to side with Warner Music Group on this one. They pretty much own the music they have the licensing rights to. Of course, if only part of a song is used in a video, I don’t think WMG and Google should get all anal about it. However, software these days enable users to easily extract audio from YouTube videos, and ever since Google implemented HD, the audio quality is better than ever. So if someone decides to create an HD slideshow using an entire track owned by WMG, then both WMG and Google are right to remove it, because that audio can easily be extracted by anyone and converted into a decent mp3.

If only the gratis model would catch on more quickly, this wouldn’t be an issue.

3 years ago • Notes