Polite Note From Queen Productions Ltd. to YT users

Polite Note From Queen Productions Ltd.
Dear YouTube User

We are writing to inform you that Queen Productions Ltd. will soon be conducting a thorough YouTube search for certain content that infringes Rights owned by Queen.

We are not planning to remove every Queen item to have been uploaded without permission. At this time we are only planning to remove examples of unreleased Queen studio recordings, session out-takes, demos, and the like. We are not referring to familiar Queen promo videos - we mean material such as My Secret Fantasy, Face It Alone, Robbery, Self Made man, I Guess We're Falling Out... items in this general category of unreleased archive rarities.

We notice you have uploaded one or more items that fall into this category, and we therefore politely request you remove these item/s forthwith. We would further advise that if these items are not removed by Friday, 14th December 2012, and we are forced to take them down ourselves, as a result of this process you will receive an automatic 'Strike' action from the YT system (which is not within our control).

YT advise us that any User receiving three or more of these Strikes, will automatically result in that individual's account being blocked.

We are not looking to spoil your enjoyment of Queen on YT, but merely to protect material owned by the band that has no business being on this (or any other) site without consent or permission.

We are aware that the vast majority of YT Users may not know that certain material they have uploaded infringes rights owned by Queen (as well as YouTube rules), and thus we hope this respectful notice will avoid the need for us to Take Down the offending item you have uploaded.

Please remove all offending items forthwith, avoid the '3 strikes and you're out' rule, but most importantly... do continue to enjoy Queen footage on YouTube -- but the officially uploaded videos, with the best sound and picture quality material -- not the poor quality unfinished uploads that were never intended for the public domain.

Thank you

The Queen YouTube Team

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What do you think abou this?

I can see their point, in terms of a musicians point of view. If there were songs I had written that were put on the internet without my permission then I would be pretty annoyed.

However, since this is more to do with copyright and privacy laws etc, then shouldn't Queen be taking advantage of this?

Seriously, there is surely a demand for these songs obviously as the YouTube videos have been watched thousands of times. That's a lot of moneys-worth if Queen were to sell them on iTunes for 99p each (surely enough to pay for srudio remastered verisons?)

Surely it is time for a proper official rarities album? The extra songs on the 40th Anniversary re-releases were good, but most well-versed Queen fans have already heard them before. Suprise Christmas release anyone?!

Interesting that they are going after the unreleased demos etc rather than, as I'd thought they might, things like the numerous copies of the New Budapest audio and video and the like which people have ridiculously already uploaded in their entirety.

Perhaps they are pulling the rare stuff in preparation for some archive releases? I live in hope!!

Ps. Perhaps this should be a sticky topic in the 'Serious' and 'Announce' sections?

Did this end up in your mailbox ? Or what exactly is this ?

They sent this to me today to my YouTube inbox.

Which things did you upload ? I have uploaded only samples from unreleased concert, and I didnt get any notice

A lot of fan-made videos, official videos, unrealesed concert footage, and just one unrealesed demo (Feel Like), that one would be the reason why a get that message.

They are well within their right and this is much better than a cold formal cease and desist.

Laughable

Well, if they're removing them in preparation for some sort of archive release, brilliant.
If they're pulling them because Brian's having a hissy fit about it, well that's a shame.

I hope they pull those full length Budapest videos too though.

Mr Fuller's fucked then.......

More like Mr May having a another hissy fit more like

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Meh...

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