Polite Note From Queen Productions Ltd. to YT users

Ah yes, we can all go to the official youtube page for Queen and enjoy the 'best sound and picture quality material' of the clips as presented on Greatest Video Hits I - oh wait.

I doubt we can gather anything about any sort of archive release from this, it's probably more the hissy fit one.

[QUOTE] [b]Jedi Knight wrote:[/b]

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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Well you are not the only one my friend.
I also received that advice, i found it today when logging in
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I do not have many rarities but mainly live show. All footage and some audio .
I will have to remove all the "rare" tracks i have. I am not removing any of the gigs i have uploaded.


Some of them have been already removed. hahaha!
Let's see what happéns.
If my channel has to die in order to have rare material released in proper quality i do not mind

Here is the link if you want to check it:
http://www.youtube.com/user/listener86?feature=mhee

it's probably the nicest way of saying get my property of your website.... they gave an entire fucking month!... who does that!! really! 2 weeks is plenty.

It's usually a good idea to download stuff that you want to keep if it's on Youtube.

Agreed Zebonka. And ironically, the stuff I personally want removed has been there years and years :o(

Good to see the general sentiment is agreement about this, even just from a legal point of view. I can't see how they would think it would effect sales of 'official' archive material in future if it is for that, but I guess they have always been anti bootlegs etc, barr the 100 Greatest Concerts charity thing as bourne out by the patchy 40th Anniversary bonus material.

if they are asking to take the rarities of you tube, we may have surprises in the future, but not yet animate guys, this QP loves surprises, unpleasant to our side

Yikes!

Brian, Jim, Greg or whatever is delusional if they think they "can delete" something from the Interwebs....

Popcorn time for sure

Did the message come from "queenofficial" or someone else? That should help determine if this is legitimate or not.

In the event that it is, the unreleased songs in question aren't licensed or published, so the legalities of this proceeding will certainly be interesting.

This is a screenshot of the message.

The message is from 'The Queen You Tube Team' - is that a legal entity?? I'd say most of the fans thus has been sent to are more a Queen You Tube Team than the people who sent this message.

As stated above, the fact that the specific tracks mentioned have never been released or published surely means that there is no way we will have been able to be aware of any copyright ownership on these because those details have never been issued???

What about the Mercury/Jackson tracks? They have been on the internet for years. I wonder if they will also be removed as part of this programme. I mean if they seriously want to release that stuff, having it readily on YT wouldn't help sales of this stuff.

Now that QPL has no doubt downloaded all of these YT videos perhaps we can look forward to them being released officially on blu-ray !

[QUOTE] [b]Kurgan100 wrote:[/b]

Now that QPL has no doubt downloaded all of these YT videos perhaps we can look forward to them being released officially on blu-ray ![/QUOTE]

You should come now to my house to clean up my monitor :-)

So over the top.Just read a great article where Bruce Springsteen was asking his fans to send them their live footage and rare recordings for a documentary.The guy is a genius and in touch with his fans which is more than I can say with Queen these days...........sad but true.