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YouTube vs Warner Music Group (WMG) vs US, With new information

WARNING : Adult language ahead. You’ve been warned.SEQUEL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFe4J… Some possible solutions to answer people who complained that we’re all complaining too much.lock and load. Yes, this bothers me this much. When I see people kill creativity to make money it burns me up. And I’ve been seeing a LOT of people with “fair use” content having their videos yanked over this. So yes, this bothers me. Don’t like it? Don’t watch.And I still maintain that a major problem is when “artists” become “businessmen”. how many people know Lars Ulrich had controlling interest in a recording label for a while? Right around when he went after Napster. Coincidence? I think not. But now, I see information that leads me to think Youtube isn’t nearly as “victim” as they’re trying to play themselves off as. I think they’re happy to let the masses believe they did nothing, when it might be the case that they’re the ones forcing the issue here and turning the screws on Warner. We’ll see how it plays out in the next few weeks, but I think the time to do something is *now*.Links mentioned in the video :http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Gg-… : Youtube blog where they

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ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO WARNER MUSIC GROUP

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Linkin Park is an American rock band that formed in 1996. This band formed in Agoura Hills, California, U.S.A. They have won two Grammy Awards and have sold more than 50,000,000 (50 million) albums. They have succeeded all of these awards with their hit album “Hybird Theory.” “Hybird Theory” was loved by a trade group called the RIAA (or the Recording Industry Association of America). They have also continued their success with their following studio album, “Meteora”, and topping the Billboard 200’s album charts in the year 2003.

Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, and Rob Bourdon. Later on these three friends graduated from high school, the California natives started to take their music more seriously, and adding three new members to their band, Joe Hahn, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Mark Wakefield (Mark was later on know as “Xero”). Soon tensions and frustration grew within the band after they failed to land their last record deal and due to the lack of success caused two members to leave the band, Wakefield the vocalist and Farrell.

After spending some times looking for a replacement vocalist, Xero enlisted a vocalist from Arizona, Chester Bennington. Later on Jeff Blue, the vice president of Zomba Music had directed Bennington to the band for help in March 1999. Bennington became a great standout because of his unique singing style. Therefore the band had changed their name from Xero to Hybird Theory. Later on the bands rebirth culminated with the change in the name; from Hybird Theory, the band had changed their name to the present day name – LINKIN PARK. However, despite these changes the band still struggled to sign a record deal. After facing lots of rejection from many of the biggest record labels, Linkin Park asked Jeff Blue for a little bit more help. Jeff was now the V.P. of Warner Bros. Records. He helped the band sign a deal with the company on the year 1999. The band released their new album Hybird Theory, in year 2000. Hybird Theory consists of these 14 songs, “Papercut”, “One Step Closer”, “With You”, “Points of Authority”, “Crawling”, “Runaway”, “By Myself”, “In the End”, “A Place for My Head”, “Forgotten”, “Cure for the Itch”, “Pushing my Away”, “My December”, and “High Voltage.”

Hybird Theory was released on 10/24/00 (October 24th, 2000). Hybrid Theory represented the 5 years of the band’s work was edited by music producer Don Gilmore. The Band sold more than 4,800,000(4.8 million) records during the current year the album was released. The band earned the status of the best-selling album of 2001. Hybird Theory was nominated for its third Grammy Award, including best new artist, best rock album, and best hard rock performance (for "Crawling"). MTV awarded the band their Best Rock Video and Best Direction awards for "In the End” (In the End is based on one person’s failure).

The band also formed their own tour, Projekt Revolution which featured artists like Cypress Hill, Adema, and Snoop Dogg. The average concerts performed by Linkin Park are 320 a year! The experiences and performances the band was documented in their first DVD, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, which debuted in November 2001.

Now reunited with former bassist Dave Farrell, the band began work on a remix album, nicknamed Reanimation, which included the songs from Hybird Theory and Hybrid Theory EP (extra play).Reanimation debuted on July 30, 2002, featuring the likes of Black Thought, Jonathan Davis, Aaron Lewis, and many others. Reanimation claimed the second spot on the Billboard 200, and sold nearly 270 thousand (270,000) copies during its debut week.

A little time after the success and fame of the two hit albums, Hybird Theory and Reanimation, the band spend lots of time touring the United States of America. The band began working on new types of music. The band spent more than half of their free time in their tour bus’ radio. Sooner after that the band themselves announced the production of their new studio album in December 2002. Their new work was inspired by the region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks. Meteora was a mixture of the band’s previous “nu metal” and “rapcore” song styles. Meteora included newer effects like the shakuhachi, which is a Japanese flute made of bamboo, and other instruments. The band’s second album came out on March 25, 2003 and in a snap the whole world new about it. It was the #1 album recognized in the United States and United Kingdom and was the second most recognized album in Australia.

More than 800,000 copies of the new hit album Meteora were sold the first week it cam into stores! It was also ranked best-selling album on the Billboard charts at the time when it came out. By October 2003 Meteora was really noticed around the world, over 2,500,000 (2.5M) copies of the hit album Meteora was sold! The success of the hit album Meteora gave Linkin Park the opportunity to

man linkin park good subject and topic and yes way 2 good of a report so this will definately give u an a + i certainly know that if i waz the teacer i woukld given u extra credit but if ur teacher duzent like it go tell em 2 fuk themselves

I ask because I seem to have a different definition of selling out. You see I believe selling out is giving up what you believe in to strike it rich. I mean if you keep the message in your music, is anything really any different. I mean MCs like Murs and Common. Murs really didn’t change his message at all when he released Murs for president on Warner Bros. Common is ridiculed for being on the jonas bros album.
his verses are as followed:
1. This is life in this World
some thing go right
some things go wrong
this is how the World can be
people just wanna be free (yeah)
the verdict came in and they said I was guilty
I looked at the judge
hey America built me
tried to get rich but they label me filthy
only God can judge, touch me, feel me
2. siren sounding my heart was pounding
i looked at my man as the cops surround him
a teen on the scene with no objective
the american dream can be so deceptive

as i read these two verses it really no different than what Common been spitting his whole career. I know many hip hop heads don’t like hannah montana, jonas bros., or anyone who works with disney, (neither do I) but you can’t spread a message if no one hears you.
I don’t know, give me your opinion.

P.S: This is an opinion and you have every right not to agree with it, but please try to be an adult about it.
good point
forgot about the gap ads

Brilliant question. I normally don’t read Y!A dissertations, but I’m glad I did. I agree.

Ok, my friends have a rock band. They just got signed by Warner 4 days ago, and know they are in the process of making arrangements for promoting, and stuff. They are getting all this free stuff too lol…
Here’s the thing: they are a rock band, and I am a rapper. So my question is this:

Does them getting signed, in any way, help me with MY quest to become a rapper? Like, I went up to them and congratulated them, and one of my friends said "I promise man, once we get big, I’m going to make you famous too." So my question is:

If I make a demo, will he be able to give it to his record label (warner signs rappers as well) and say "check this rapper out", or will I have to follow the steps like everyone else and send a press kit, wait,etc.? (Or will my friend who got signed be allow to just give it to Warner with his own hands?)

Please help, and God bless you all!

If your lucky it will all be easy for you just work hard and try your best in everything and when it comes to your demo make sure it sounds good but you can’t rely on your friends to get you big. Try giving the demo and also talk to your friends about if they were actually serious and if that doesn’t work out have a backup plan ready.

There is plenty of evidence to put this man away, First Pac Now Melissa Isaac plus many others

Marion Knight was born in Compton, California. His name, Suge (pronounced /ʃʊɡ/), derives from "Sugar Bear", a childhood nickname.[1] He remained an excellent student and athlete, so much so that he won a football scholarship to University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he played collegiate football for several years.[2] After school, he played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams as a replacement player during the 1987 NFL strike.[3] Later, he found work as a concert promoter and a bodyguard for celebrities including Bobby Brown. Knight’s legal problems began in 1987 when he faced auto theft, concealed weapon and attempted murder charges, ultimately receiving probation. Two years later, he formed his own music-publishing company, and allegedly made his first big fortune in the business by coercing Vanilla Ice into signing over royalties from his smash hit "Ice Ice Baby" owing to material that he supposedly sampled from one of Knight’s company associates. (The possibly apocryphal story holds that Knight held Ice by his ankles off of a 20th-floor balcony, though in Ice’s version, the threat was more implied.) Knight next formed an artist management company and signed prominent West Coast hip hop artists The D.O.C. and DJ Quik.
Through the former, he met several members of the seminal gangsta rap group N.W.A. In 1993, Suge would have a son, Andrew, born on April 19, sharing the same birthday as him. Andrew is currently living in Greater Los Angeles area with his mother, "Tia". Another son, Taj, is said to be living in Atlanta with his mother, Davina Barnes. Most recently, a daughter, Bailei, with R&B singer Michel’le.[4]
Death Row Records

The logo for Death Row Records is a blindfolded man strapped into an electric chair
Dr. Dre of N.W.A wished to depart from both his group and their label, Ruthless Records, run by Eazy-E, another member of N.W.A. According to N.W.A’s manager Jerry Heller, Knight and his henchmen threatened Heller and Eazy-E with pipes and baseball bats in order to secure Dre’s release[5]. Ultimately, Dre co-founded Death Row Records in 1991 with Knight, who famously vowed to make it "the Motown of the ’90s."
For a time, Knight made good on his ambitions: He secured a distribution deal with Interscope, and Dre’s 1992 solo debut, The Chronic, became one of the most influential rap albums of all time[6]. It also made a star of Dre’s protégé, Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose debut album, Doggystyle, was another smash hit in 1993[7]. As Dre’s signature G-funk production style became an influential part of hip-hop, Death Row became a reliable brand name for gangsta rap fans, and even its lesser releases sold consistently well.
Meanwhile, Death Row had begun a public feud with 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell, and when Knight traveled to Miami for a hip-hop convention in 1993, he was apparently seen openly carrying a gun. The following year, he opened a private, by-appointment-only nightclub in Las Vegas called Club 662, so named because the numbers spelled out MOB, Knight’s gang affiliation, on telephone keypads. In 1995, he ran afoul of activist C. Delores Tucker, whose criticism of Death Row’s glamorization of the "gangsta" lifestyle may have helped scuttle a lucrative deal with Time Warner.
The addition of Tupac

Additionally, Knight’s feud with East Coast impresario Sean Combs (aka P Diddy) took a nasty turn when Knight insulted the Bad Boy label honcho on air at the Source Awards in August 1995. Openly critical of Puffy’s tendency of ad-libbing on his artists’ songs and dancing in their videos, Knight announced to the audience of recording artists and industry figures, "Anyone out there who wanna be a recording artist and wanna stay a star, but don’t have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the records, dancing, come to Death Row."
The same year, Knight offered to post a hefty bail for Tupac Amaru Shakur if the troubled rapper agreed to sign with Death Row. Shakur agreed, setting the stage for his 1996 blockbuster double album All Eyez on Me and the smash hits "California Love" and "How Do U Want It." Shakur helped Death Row stay on top of a marketplace that was already shifting back toward the East Coast, which had devised its own distinct brand of hardcore rap.
The loss of Dr. Dre and Tupac

However, the label suffered a major blow when Dr. Dre, frustrated with the company’s increasingly thuggish reputation and Knight’s violent inclinations, decided to leave and form his own label. A stream of Dre-dissing records followed, but things turned tragic in September 1996, when Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
When Shakur’s East Coast rival, The Notorious B.I.G., was murdered in a similar fashion in March 1997, speculation immediately arose that Knight was involved and that B.I.G.’s death was a revenge killing; although former Dea

Dang who would have thought. That is so deep….when Suge falls, he’s gonna fall hard for the things he have done. So sad.

Guess Who Lost Their Record Deal?
Nobody is going to give you a record deal. You have to prove you can sell. In fact major record labels are cutting their own big named artists who are not selling. Here is a list of all the artists who were dropped by major record labels in 2007.

***Add Omarion to this list he recently lost his record deal***

Airbourne
Alexz Johnson
Alkaline Trio
Amerie
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead…
Annie Steela
Ari Hest
Aslyn
Big Pooh and Little Brother
Blood Brothers
Bo Bice
Brendan James
Brett Ryan
Christian Daniel
Christina Milian
CMurder
Dandy Warhols
DMX
Fischerspooner
From First To Last
Goldie
Hedley
IMA Robot
INXS
JC Chasez
Jewel
J-Kwon
Joe Budden
Kelis — Yes Nas’ wife
Kevin Devine
King Elementary
Liz Phair
Melissa Auf der Mar
Men, Women and Children
Moby
Mooney Suzuki
Natalie Warner
Nine Inch Nails
Northern State
Otep
Over It
P.O.D.
Paris Hilton
Paul McCartney — He was one of the Beatles
Phase 9
Prophet Omega
Radiohead
Reeve Oliver
Ronnie Day
Ruben Studdard
Shaggy
Shout Out Louds
Skye Sweetnam
Sound Team
Sparklehorse
Stacie Orrico
Sugarcult
Summer Obsession
The Clipse
The Donnas
The Music
The Outline
The Redwalls
The Vines
What About Frank
White Stripes

All the acts that lost major label deals in 2007 [Hollywood Insider]

Listen to me people, especially teenagers, record labels are only signing people who proved they can sell. Why? They’re loosing millions of dollars to illegal downloading! To get a deal you have to make your own album, market it online, and get everybody listening to your song (like Soulja Boy did). IT TAKES TIME AND A LITTLE MONEY. My website tells you how to do do this.

Everyday I receive hundreds of emails and comments from people trying to get in the music business. Most of them sound like this ‘All I need is a chance. Singing is my heart, I’m really good, I have a God given talent’. Maybe you do, but millions of people across the world are saying the same thing. Watch American Idol, they all believe that.

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
You have to Invest in Your career. Have you made a demo? Have you ever recorded in a studio? It’s not enough to write songs in a lyric book. It does not happen like a fairy tale or movie. You have to work at it. I posted a video clip of Destiny’s Child talking about how long it took them to break in the game. It’s a lot of work. They invested a lot of time and money.

There are some people who have a Fantasia Barrino type story. They audition for something, get the part, and the rest is history. This rarely happens. Ask Fantasia herself, her record label is considering dropping her. They already dropped Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks.

The best way to seal your career is to do what Soulja Boy did. Get a job, save some money, build a home recording studio ($1500-$2000 see the article I posted earlier about owning a home recording studio), make an album or demo, and promote it all over the Internet. Soulja Boy owns over 85% of his song rights. Most artists don’t get this much control, but since Soulja Boy marketed himself labels came to him. The labels had to listen to him because they wanted Soulja Boy’s fan market.

If Soulja Boy never made another song, he’d still have money (royalty checks) coming. Ruben Studdard and Taylor hicks do not. This website does not give out record deals, but we tell you how to be financially successful as a recording artists. Read the articles, have faith, work hard, and invest time and money in your recording career. God gave you the talent, but remember we all reap what we sew.
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copied and pasted from http://jamilleluney.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/you-have-to-invest-in-your-music-career/

and plzzz dont come in here callin me gay or whatever else yall be calling me because i was being sarcastic with the soulja boy answers,besides we should be even since yall got me suspended with 27 violations all at one time at level 3
so cant we all just be friends???
i was wonderin because alot of ppl still talk about them so why aint they sellin if they sooo good?
i do and i used to be a 2pac stan when i was 15
i didnt like him at first but he grew on me plus i know the diffrence between real rap and radio mess and i learned to tolerate both
yea most of the time i listen to it at parties or when i feel like doing the dance,but when i wanna listen to lyrics i go back to 2pac and lil wayne or somebody so i got it all organized it thats ok,the only south artist i can get into is the ones that dance but young joc and the rest who think they can rap i hate them.
i will i was just gettin a kick outta havin so many thumbs downs lol i quit

U pretty much answered your own question. And if you get in trouble or become hard to market they drop you. Or if the artist is hard to work with. And sometimes it is because there are better artist to sign. There a lot of reasons why they could have been drooped .And when the records stop selling you will get dropped quick. These artist got to stop putting out garbage.

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In these times of major label mergers, downsizing, the slashing of label rosters, and thousands of record company jobs being lost over the last three years–not to mention the enormous sea change and seismic shifts that technology has wrought–comes one of the most disturbing reports we have come across. It further reveals just how profoundly out-of-touch certain companies TRULY are when addressing the problems within their own record divisions.

The Financial Times reported Warner Music paid its top five executives more than $21m in salary and bonuses following last year s $2.6bn acquisition of the US music group by a private equity consortium. The article points out that Edgar Bronfman Jr, the Chairman who led last year s buy-out, received a $1M salary and $5.25M bonus. Lyor Cohen, head of the US recorded music business, received $1M and $5.24M in salary and bonus, respectively. Paul Rene Albertini, head of Warner s international operations, was paid $1.25M in salary and a $3.15M bonus. Departing Warner/Chappell CEO, Les Bider, received a $2.44M total payment.

These payouts include further guaranteed bonuses or change of control payments. According to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, last year s total executive remuneration was more than three times higher than Warner Music s $7M operating income for the 10 months to September 30th. The management payments reflect Warner s success in cutting costs following last year s sale of the Music Group by Time Warner. The company expects to deliver $250M of annualized savings by May this year, achieved mainly through 1,600 job losses.

What is so truly disturbing here is that it speaks volumes about the value system of an owner of a company that would pay its top-five Record Executives more than three times the amount of operating income for a ten-month period while dismissing 1,600 employees.

What the article failed to mention was that in addition to the employee layoffs, Warner Music Group also dropped 93 of the 193 artists signed to Warner Labels in the US, approximately 47% of the artist roster during this same period. If the financial health of a company is truly so dire that it calls for these kind of dramatic and severe cuts for the financial well being of the company, how does one justify the kind of staggering bonus payouts to the top five executives in the company? Don t get us wrong, we have no problem with executive compensation when it s tied to actually rewarding performance, but in this case, one is truly hard pressed to grasp or to understand what is actually being rewarded. The claim that the Warner Music Group will save $250M of annualized savings mainly through the decimation of 1,600 jobs is not something that we think should be financially rewarded.

On Feb 11th at the Grammy Foundation Entertainment Law Initiative luncheon in Los Angeles, WMG Chairman Edgar Bronfman spoke to the 460 attendees of the luncheon, We must employ our creative imagination – and we must resist the temptation to conduct business as we always have – by experimenting with new approaches, new structures and new relationships, so that we can move more quickly and appropriately respond to the ever-changing marketplace.

He went on to request that music attorneys bring a new level of creativity to the deals they forge. Your willingness to join with us is critical to the success of our industry.

If only he had resisted the temptation to conduct business like we always have and not given so much to so few while so many went without. In business, as in life, you lead through example. Mr. Bronfman, with all due respect, you need to have to have your own house in order before you have the credibility to make a request like that to the creative and legal communities.

In an open letter to Warner Music Chairman Edgar Bronfman, Carlos Anaia, a five-year Warner Music Group employee in London who was leaving the company wrote, We understand that you took on a huge task to turn around the ailing, forgotten division of AOL Time Warner, but informing the already morale-drained staff (via a third party – The Financial Times) that the salary and bonuses that the top five executives took individually equal more than 20 times my total lifetime salaried income (assuming I started at 18 and retired at 60), is somewhat more than insensitive. If you want to make us feel like maggots, you succeeded. Paul-Rene Albertini gets paid $4 MILLION in total? Hello!!? The only deals we are all aware of have all LOST money. Walt Disney Records? It s still more than $15 million unrecouped. Milan Records? A French turkey. Need I go on? What deals has this guy done that actually MADE money?
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The balance of the article, can be read here:

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how can i go about getting it back?
they said it was deleted because i uploaded a music video "paramore-decode" & it was 10x better quality than their record labels video & so warner deleted it & my account that i worked hard to get.

i even put in the sidebar…

no copyright intended this is not my video… credit goes to fuled by ramen & paramore… add them:

http://www.myspace.com/paramore

& if you like this video buy it on itunes to support them & i linked to their itunes.

can i get my account back? how?
youtube account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! duh

LOL — Did you actually write: "NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED.
CREDIT GOES TO FULED BY RAMEN AND PARAMORE?"

If so, it means that you "publicly admitted" to YouTube (and
anyone who might have been able to watch your video), that
you had no business uploading that music.

Saying stupid stuff like that actually DOUBLES or TRIPLES
the chances that not only will your video get "muted/deleted",
your entire account could get suspended.

Please avoid absolutely stupid and embarrassing sentences
like that. Not only does YouTube search for buzz-words and
sentences such as those, what you defacto did was declare
publicly that you took, copied, used, or stole the company’s
or artist’s copyrighted material. In other words, what you did
was stupidly "SELF-INCRIMINATE" yourself.

Not only that, if you were gullible enough to write something
like "No Copyright Intended", you literally "CONTRADICTED"
yourself, because your video "PROVED" that you DID claim
it as your own and that you DID use someone’s copyrighted
material for your own purposes. A different way of looking at
it is: The video itself actually "PROVED" the willing intent to
infringe copyright, because your video didn’t just make itself
magically out of thin air, nor did it upload itself by some sort
of fluke. You knowingly and physically made it happen.

If you want a ridiculous comparison, it is like robbing a bank
and then showing the money to everyone on the street, with
a big sign saying "No robbery intended".

P.S. Are you sure you’re not playing with us when you write
that YouTube and/or Warner state your video is: "10x better
quality than their record labels video"?

As a hobby, I collect music from certain artists. I buy any album, single, EP, vinyl, etc.

I also collect promotional material. Unfortunately, to obtain these, I have to resort to eBay. Does anyone know a way I could receive promo CDs directly from labels (I’m really shooting for Warner Bros. Records) I hate having to buy these on eBay where they say "not to be sold"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Almost any promo CDs will have the "not to be sold" tag on them because they are just that, promo CDs. They are commonly distributed to radio stations for use on the airwaves. You could approach your local stations and see if they receive multiple copies of promos and maybe work out some kind of arrangement with them. I must warn you, however, you may not reproduce or play them in public unless you pay royalties to the producers of such
cds.