Warner Music DCMAs itself

Written by Forum Editor Tuesday, 05 May 2009 01:57

Warner Music have long been one of the slap-happy Digital Millenium Copyright Act serial abusers, issuing takedown notices regardless of fair use at the slightest provocation.

As it turns out, they're fairer in their application that we would previously have believed.

They've managed to issue takedown notices against themselves, issued against Sire Records whose parent company is Warners.

The ironic part of all this that Warner Music are effectively denying themselves and the artists they represent free publicity, while simultaneously decrying piracy as the sole cause of their current financial woes.

Full story on BoingBoing.