Wednesday, January 14, 2009

YouTube Now Mutes Videos With Unauthorized Copyrighted Music

When corporations fight back...

Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I’m afraid that they won’t be able to do that much longer, since YouTube has started muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music (and that pretty much means all user-created videos.)

Guess that little period of democratic creative freedom is about over, no?

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