I love music, and when a new single comes out there's nothing better than going onto YouTube and loading up the song. I tried to do this lately with a Jake Bugg song called "Someone Told Me" but to my dismay I found I could not listen to the song because it had been blocked by the record label UMG. I found this incredibly strange because I was not on a random YouTube account, it was the official YouTube of Jake Bugg. For some strange reason, his record label had stopped a song from being played on his own account. Pretty far fetched if you ask me seeing as he's the guitarist, singer and song writer. Now if I was Jake I'd be pretty annoyed at this.
It just goes to show that once you take out a copyright on something, no matter who you are you have very little control over what happens to your material. This was proved in a previous blog which highlighted the sale of the entire Beatles song catalogue to Michael Jackson. These copyright and and IP rights companies have people tangled up in one massive cobweb.
The song has since been restored and the copyright block removed, but who did UMG think they were blocking Mr Bugg from uploading his own song? Copyright is indeed going mad.
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