Warner Music Group May Pull Youtube Videos

A music video  is an extension of a song. A visual interpretation of the artists original product. There used to be a day when you could only see the video on a television music channel or video tape/dvd. Then Mtv stopped playing as many videos and filled the time with reality shows and more crap. They invented Mtv 2 mainly to bring back the video aspect. That too turned down an ugly road or ridiculous reality shows and more crap. Fuse used to be pretty good with with videos when they were Much Music…and then they didn’t show much music at all.

People wanted to watch videos but they wanted to do it on their time, when they wanted and only what they wanted.  Along came Youtube. Mainly for people to upload their own videos. Soon people started uploading music videos and the record labels saw dollar signs.

Warner Music Group, one of many labels that has agreements with Youtube, which was purchased by Google from it’s founders for 1.6 BILLION dollars (I think that’s the right number). Apparently Warner wants more money or something.

Executives at YouTube have spent much effort in the past year developing revenue streams for the site, in part to meet the demands of content partners such as Warner Music. Negotiations regarding how to best split those revenues broke down on Friday. (source)

So if a new agreement is not met then we may see less videos on Youtube from artists under their umbrella. Youtube may be one of the most popular sites for videos, but they’re not the only ones. Dailymotion, Mtv and Myspace Music all carry various music videos as well. As of today there doesn’t seem to be any Warner artists taken off of Youtube and their own user page is still present there.