[Ron Ramirez]

I've posted a few YouTube videos to show a radio playing, and now I try not to demonstrate a radio playing any music...thanks to WMG. Apparently any snippet of talk radio is OK, but not music. Especially Warner Music Group-controlled music.

Now, I firmly believe in copyright laws, and I know I've made enemies on ARF in the past for my insistence that no one should take photos from this website (Philcoradio.com) and just repost them as if they belonged to the poster, without asking permission. (There have been people who asked permission first, and I always told these people yes provided they gave proper credit to the source - me. So I don't mind helping anyone out if they simply ask first.) I've often wondered if this is why so many ARFers pretend this website does not exist, promoting Radiomuseum instead. However, Radiomuseum has the same policy about not using their images or text without permission - although a lot of people do, and apparently RM doesn't bother to police such activity. Their problem, not mine.

But for WMG to cause YouTube to pull a simple video demonstrating a working radio that happens to be playing a few seconds of a WMG song is, in my view, ridiculous. As you say, Mike, it would be different if one were posting the entire song in CD-quality sound.