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Originally Posted by TomCat Productions

Thanks to all of you for your consoling comments.

As of this afternoon we are now up to 29 blocked videos. From what I understand and I don't pretend to understand everything, the issue is around the amount of royalties to be paid by YouTube to the Warner Music Group. Their negotiations have reached a stand off. From what I can gather, The Warner Music Group owns or has an interest in about 95% of Gordon's music. The ones they don't appear to have an interest in were produced in the United Artists Years and not purchased By the Warner Music Group. There aren't too many of those. Gordon also did some work with Reprise Records, HOWEVER, Reprise Records is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, so anything Gordon did with this company qualifies for blockage.

Gordon isn't the only one... I've had personal videos removed in the last week where the Warner Music Group apparently owned the rights (Atlantic Records).

To give you some sort of understanding of just how huge the Warner Music Group is, you should check out Wikipedia. There must be a huge amount of material on YouTube that the Warner Music Group has an interest in. Slowly but surely they are all being blocked... we're not the only ones.

Yesterday, I did a couple of test uploads to the Lightfoot Tribute Channel. One was the good vistory that I just completed... Can't Depend on Love. It was immediately rejected. The other, which you won't see because it is marked as private and not at all complete, is Oh Linda which from what I can tell, Warner has no interest in. Interestingly enough it was accepted on the upload.

Right now, that's pretty well all I know. For me, it's like watching someone die of cancer... SLOWLY... and knowing you can't do anything about it :-(

I must admit, I don't understand a whole hell of a lot myself, but what it sounds like to me is that Warners is trying to get a strangle hold on all aspects of the entertainment industry, all in the name of profits.