TALKS between Universal Music and the owners of YouTube and MySpace over 'copyright issues' are on the verge of breaking down. Universal Music CEO Doug Morris recently dubbed YouTube and MySpace 'copyright infringers' that owe the outfit tens of millions of US dollars. He said that "how we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly" - in other words the lawyers are writing the letters right now. Talks with News Corp.'s MySpace have been progressing a little better, but not much. YouTube negotiations have broken down completely.
YouTube has a policy of removing copyright-infringing material uploaded by users and has had a reasonable relationship with the music and video industry which uses it for promotion of its material. However Universal seems to have split from the other record labels in trying to squeeze money out of various websites lately. It has started charge Web portals such as Yahoo and Time Warner AOL for playing its artists' music videos online or over video-on-demand services.
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YouTube has a policy of removing copyright-infringing material uploaded by users and has had a reasonable relationship with the music and video industry which uses it for promotion of its material. However Universal seems to have split from the other record labels in trying to squeeze money out of various websites lately. It has started charge Web portals such as Yahoo and Time Warner AOL for playing its artists' music videos online or over video-on-demand services.

@ old man at universal: If a company is willing to distribute avertisments for your content to a MASSIVE audience for virtually nothing (compared to television). Or if you ignore them, don't pay them, and don't want logos and links (where they can BUY IT) it doesn't cost you ANYTHING! Guess what, if you attack them, you lose idiot.
first mp3s, then movies, then guitar tabs. whats next? soon we wont be able to whistle a tune! or what... even worse... laugh at a thought of a scene we just remembered..... b/c we'll all have chips planted in our brain!!!
i dont promote making illegal copies but this is getting a little out of hand.
The only music I've seen on there is on the artist's page.
Search for a pretty popular band and you'll find at least 10 profiles for the same one. People create fake profiles all the time just so they can get a certain song on their profile that isn't on the real band's profile.
After all, the LESS people hear your product, the MORE likely they are to buy it, right? RIGHT?! 8P
The music industry is Stupidity Incorporated right now.
B) Why in the world do YOU care? Can you give us specifics of why myspace is "rubbish" and why you feel the need to lamely squeak out "please take down myspace"?
IMHO myspace do a nice job for the rest of internet, keep a lot of indesirable people grouped into myspace (at least for a moment). Nobody need myspace, you can have a real blogs for free anyways.
Ever notice they don't do any advertising? That's right... no profits... just some private investors funding the site. I can't even imagine why you would sue them. They do put forth a best effort to prevent that stuff.
Scroll to the very bottom and you will see a link that says:
"Advertise with Us"
Also, there are sponsored movie trailers on the right hand side and companies can pay to have their channel advertised on the front page.
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