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Warner Music Group asks YouTube to remove all their videos

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Music video fans will be disappointed today, as Warner Music withdraws all their videos from YouTube.

Although Warner was one of the first media companies to reach a deal with YouTube and their owners, Google, allowing the company to display their content for free apparently hasn’t been particularly profitable for Warner. According to Billboard:

"We are working actively to find a resolution with YouTube that would enable the return of our artists’ content to the site," Warner said in a statement. "Until then, we simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide."

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