YouTube star Michelle Phan sued over copyright breach
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 07/24/2014 07:47 AM
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Ultra Records, which has musicians Kaskade, deadmau5 and Calvin Harris on its books, is suing Michelle Phan claiming she has used about 50 of their songs without permission in her YouTube videos and on her own website.
The label also said she "has been featured in a high-profile and multi-platform advertising campaign for YouTube, which features some of YouTube's most popular personalities".
For those who do not know, when you post a YouTube video you have to claim copyright to your work in order to qualify for ads. If you use copyrighted content then by default YouTube will not allow ads. So, how she is running ads using someone's copyrighted music?
Will Google get involved? Will they fight it? Will they stick their head in the sand? More importantly, as someone who has run into Google and their rules and regulations numerous times, why hasn’t Google removed the questionable content if it contained copyrighted works without permission? Could it be that she has 6.7+ million followers and that 2 of her most popular videos have almost 100 million views? Nah...
Grab the popcorn. this should be fun.
The label also said she "has been featured in a high-profile and multi-platform advertising campaign for YouTube, which features some of YouTube's most popular personalities".
For those who do not know, when you post a YouTube video you have to claim copyright to your work in order to qualify for ads. If you use copyrighted content then by default YouTube will not allow ads. So, how she is running ads using someone's copyrighted music?
Will Google get involved? Will they fight it? Will they stick their head in the sand? More importantly, as someone who has run into Google and their rules and regulations numerous times, why hasn’t Google removed the questionable content if it contained copyrighted works without permission? Could it be that she has 6.7+ million followers and that 2 of her most popular videos have almost 100 million views? Nah...
Grab the popcorn. this should be fun.
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