Down Down, Deeper and Down.

What do Justin Bieber, Rhianna, Lady Gaga , Beyonce and Shakira have in common? Well you can make your own minds up about their music, but they are undoubtedly some of the biggest pop stars on the global music jukebox at the moment – and NONE of them are signed to iLCreation. Why do I mention iLCreation – well this entity managed to get videos by Bieber, Gaga, Shakira, Rhianna, Beyonce and others including Bruno Mars and Miley Cyrus taken down from YouTube. Seemingly rather easily.

Many of the artistes who whose videos were targeted had performed at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards last Sunday (where Beyonce announced her pregnancy to the World)and according to Webpronews an unknown individual using the name iLCreation submitted a copyright claim on numerous videos including Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The USA”, Rhianna’s “What’s My Name” and. Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and following its standard procedures, YouTube pulled down the video including Bieber’s entire Vevo channel, it seems without requiring any form of verification that the claimant had the right to request the take-down.

Vevo initially posted a statement that explained, “Someone is making false copyright claims against the Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga channels and YouTube has blocked access to the videos as a result. We are working with YouTube to resolve ASAP.” The videos could still be seen on Vevo’s own site. Vevo, part owned by major record labels Sony and Universal, issued a formal statement that read, “A few videos by Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga were briefly taken down by YouTube as a result of false copyright claims. This issue has been resolved.” Almost all of the video affected by the fake notices were restored within a couple of hours. As one commentator added “It’s particularly ironic for Bieber…. seeing as how Youtube is where he started”

YouTube uses several automated systems for removing unauthorized content, including ContentID, but copyright owners also can submit individual claims using an online form.

Shakira's "Waka Waka" has had 390 million viewers on YouTube. iLCreation is now the most “hated person on Twitter”. Allegedly.


http://www.webpronews.com/justin-bieber-lady-gaga-videos-pulled-from-youtube-2011-08

The Gaga Files: German hackers face trial

Two young German computer hackers have been accused of stealing pre-release recordings from artists including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Ke$ha and Kelly Clarkson and selling the tracks online, in a number of instances forcing record labels to rush release singles to enjoy some returns from legal downloads. Dusisberg's chief prosecuter said that a 17 year old school boy and a 23 year old unempployed man (indentfied only as Deniz A and Christian M) were under investigation for using trojan malware to hack into artist's computers. It seems trhey remained undetected for over twelve months. It is also alleged that they also accessed a compromising photograph of one artist with a plan to extort money from the featured musician. One of the pair, who both lived at home, used the online name 'DJ Stolen' and they attached the Trojan to MP3 files sent to artists, their labels and their management companies. Police were alerted after a fan of Kelly Clarkson alerted her management to unreleased songs being sold online. The pair are said to have earned over $13,000 from sales of the songs and the accused face up to five years in prison and large fines if convicted. It is not known what songs were stolen or the losses suffered by the artists and their labels from the unschedlued 'releases'. The Dusiberg prosecuter said that investigations would be completed in January.

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/12/03/hackers-steal-lady-gaga-timberlake-mp3s-sell-them-online

Picture Nick Cordes at Glastonbury 2009 (C) 2009