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Proving once again that the big record companies don’t get it, Warner Music is taking it’s video’s and going home because of battles over royalties.   The music industry and it’s big powerhouse companies have fallen on hard times for many reasons, the chief of those reasons is the ability to get whatever you want online for free.   So if Warner takes their videos away from YouTube, where millions upon millions go everyday, who’s being hurt here? 

Content will be removed from the site along with recordings owned by Warner Music’s record publishing business, Warner/Chappell Music, which controls the copyright to songs including Happy Birthday to You and Winter Wonderland. Warner Music’s withdrawal also covers amateur clips that feature its artists or copyrighted songs – potentially widening the action to hundreds of thousands of additional postings. —Read

So artist who are struggling to sell units will suffer over a few pennies which means in the long run WM will lose more money than if they came to an agreement with Google.   Now they’ll spend their time and money on searching out and filling lawsuits for every  Warner that gets posted on YouTube, and we all know that will happen each and everyday. ÂÂ