Comments on: Warner Music Group and YouTube talking again

Six months after Warner Music's songs disappeared from YouTube, the two companies are trying to hash out their differences, sources say.

[KenHuntley]

Please oh please let it be true that WB Music is finally waking up

The longer you are off youtube, the more irrelevant you become. Consider youtube free advertising. People are looking for the content. SNL pulls clips trying to start something with their own site. Maybe hosting higher resolution versions of video, and somebody will make the trek. But you still need youtube to remind people their site exists.

[unknown unknown]

I am just waiting to see how they (WMG) mess this one up. I don't think they can keep their greed in check long enough to make a deal that both they and Google will find acceptable. They're so use to bullying everyone around they forgot how to deal with someone who doesn't need them and can't easily be sued into submission.

I think the larger artists who already have their name out their would be smart to Warner ASAP. They clearly don't get it and probably never will.

My vote of no confidence.

[badasscat]

I've had no problem finding any WMG videos on YouTube regardless. That's probably what's causing them to finally wake up. Their videos will be on YouTube anyway; the only question is whether or not they have control over it.

I do sometimes see a "this video was removed due to a copyright claim by WMG", but all that does is make WMG look bad, and those videos just pop up again within minutes anyway.

[dburr13]

All of Michael Jackson's fans are fortunate that he wasn't with WB...Just think of all the sales of MJ music that was spurred by the memories brought back when his fans went to YouTube to watch his videos...YouTube can be a terrific sales boost for heritage artists...By now the light should be bright enough for WMG to see.

[dburr13]

All of Michael Jackson's fans are fortunate that he wasn't with WB...Just think of all the sales of MJ music that was spurred by the memories brought back when his fans went to YouTube to watch his videos...YouTube can be a terrific sales boost for heritage artists...By now the light should be bright enough for WMG to see.

[SmoothIAm]

I knew WMG would be back. Warner doesn't really have any big new acts today. They only had about 400 million views on their channel not 4 billion views like Universal. Hell, you got home grown Youtube talent like Fred with 400 million views. I wasn't surprise when Youtube told Warner to stick it. Youtube is the new MTV and a lot of Warner acts was really hurt over the last six months not being on Youtube. Especially a lot of RnB acts on Atlantic like Trey Songz, Musiq Soulchild, all the acts on Puffy's Bad Boy Records like Day 26, and DK.

[Renegade Knight]

There is a lot of truth to Youtube being the new MTV. That's what my kids use it for. It's how they find new music.