Infamous Rebecca Black YouTube Video 'Friday' Taken Down Over Copyright Issue?
from the grab-some-popcorn dept
If you haven’t yet come across the phenomenon of Rebecca Black and the song Friday, I’ll just assume you’ve been in a coma for the past couple of months. Back in April, we noted that there appeared to be a copyright fight brewing around the video, and whether or not the rights were owned by Ark Music Factory or Black herself. Even the founders of Ark Music Factory didn’t seem to agree. The whole thing was a mess waiting to happen…
So it’s interesting to see that the video, which had well over 100 million views, appears to have been taken off of YouTube due to a copyright claim. The message on the video says the claim was from Rebecca herself:
Filed Under: copyright, friday, rebecca black
Companies: ark music factory, youtube
Comments on “Infamous Rebecca Black YouTube Video 'Friday' Taken Down Over Copyright Issue?”
Whatever the cause is, they did the world a favor.
Rather than teaching kids to learn an instrument and develop their own style, the Rebecca Black scenario just tells kids that they can’t have a famous song unless they’re rich enough to pay for someone to write really bad lyrics and autotune the crap out of your voice.
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I think the signal to the children is more “you don’t need any talent at all to become famous.” Not sure they’d want the RB style of fame, but there it is.
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That’s not fame. That’s infamy.
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Exactly. MrWilson, the song was infamous for being soooo bad.
It’s hilarious that somebody thought people would pay for it. Kinda like “being hit on the head lessons.”
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That’s not fame. That’s infamy.
Infamy, infamy – they’ve all got it …
Darn it Mr. Masnick, now you’ve ruined tomorrow for me. (For those in the western hemisphere, tomorrow is Friday.)
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That’s OK, this one is better….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvCVyoESLYY
I know IHOP always gets my money when hear this one….
A small correction...
…I’m not in a coma. Rather, it appears I’ve been extraordinarily lucky to escape it.
As for the topic… meh. It’s not like I wanted to go looking for it just to be a statistic.
Result!
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I hate you!
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And yesterday was Wednesday.
You know Mike has run out of things to talk about when he talks about Rebecca Shit Black
Hacked maybe? Sounds like something 4chan or lulzsec would enjoy doing.
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That’s OK, this one is better….
Hey, I use that same checklist every morning.
Still not a zombie yet…but I wonder if I’d use the checklist if I was?
Pancakes are great, just don’t put syrup on them.
$2.99? Are you kidding?
I mean, excpet for Rebecca’s mom & dad, who would pay to view it? I mean, good for her (and by “her”, I mean along with whoever showered her with money) to do what every little girl loves to do – playing dress-up with Mom’s clothes & jewelry and putting a on a show with her friends in the backyard – and turning her little fantasy into something a bit more substantial.
If you look at it the right way, you can enjoy it the same way you can enjoy watching kids playing make-believe.
Granted, some parts (like where d’s and t’s get intentionally silenced, so you get words like “di’n’t”, and that whole nasal voice thing she’s got going on) really grate on my nerves, but she’s just a kid, right?
Anyway, even in my most charitable mood, there’s no way in Hell I’d pay money to watch that thing. The $2.99 price must have been some sort of mistake, as I can’t see anyone REALLY thinking she’d make more than $9.00 once she, her mom and her dad paid up.
HM
Finally something good came out of copycrap.
This is one of the rare instances, copyright actually is useful to the general public
While I understand the sentiment.
I completely understand the reaction to this posting. Rebecca Black was hoping to be the next Bieber with this release, but all its done is propel her to the butt of a few over saturated jokes. The purpose of removing the video now seems to be rather late. 10 million hits, hundreds of parodies and lip syncs. Is there really a point? Are they going to put that really crappy genie back in a bottle somehow?
I think that I would rather be rickrolled then ever have to hear that again, but the pancake song was pretty catchy though.
Fame versus infamy
Fame is fleeting. Only infamy is forever. Rebecca Black’s generation recognise Hitler but not Churchill. Go figure.
definitely some sort of fight behind the scenes...
it seems no one reporting on this looked at rebecca black’s twitter account (@MsRebeccaBlack). they would have seen the following tweets from her when the rental fee appeared on the friday video:
“Thanks for all the messages regarding the $2.99 fee added to Friday video, I have NOTHING to do with this!!”
“PS…My Manager and Lawyer are on this and are going to get to the bottom of this! Stay tuned…”
definitely some sort of fight behind the scenes...
Ah, the joys of entitlement culture.
Fame versus infamy
“Rebecca Black’s generation recognise Hitler but not Churchill. “
Probably due to the Hitler reacts meme
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Take this for hurting my ears and brain.
Miss Black unplugged — on ABC morning show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBzT2pv1Jc
Well thank god.
Mebbeh..
..she just woke up to how awful it is and is asserting her copyright to keep it from being played to her embarrassment.
It’s an interesting perspective on deciding the best term length for copyright. How long SHOULD she be allowed to suppress her own speech in order let this ugly, ugly thing fade into obscurity?