During her night performance in Orlando, Florida, Beyonce face planted on stage and of course, captured on camera by several fans in attendance.
To her credit, she later joked about the fall, telling the audience that it “hurt so bad” and imploring, “Don’t put it on YouTube.” Of course, those in the audience did the exact opposite, and by the following morning, several different clips of her spill were among the “Most Watched” and “Most Discussed” on the site.
On the next morning those clips began disappearing from YouTube at an alarming rate, removed “due to terms of use violations.“. But just what terms of use were the clips violating?
According to YouTube, users posting their footage of Beyonce’s fall were guilty of infringement because “even if they took the video themselves, the performer controls the right to use his/her image in a video, the songwriter owns the rights to the song being performed and sometimes the venue prohibits filming without permission.“. Of course, those copyright holders aren’t talking (MTV News’ requests for comment went unanswered by Song BMG as of press time).
This is pathetic and hypocritic. A simple youtube search for Beyonce returns 194,000 results!!! Most of them are video clips of her songs. Why they didn’t request their removal too? It’s simple! A video clip is a sales management tool, to promote a song. They want to watch it as many people is possible. So, they don’t care for “copyright violations”. On the other hand, they care for the artist’s bad moment.
Ok, It’s a face plant. Every face plant is funny. No matter if a celebrity or our best friend is face planted, It’s a funny (for us) human moment. Youtube and other video-sharing sites are full of these moments. Why are laughing or “ouching” with other (ordinary) people face plants. Why not with Mrs Beyonce one? Cause she’s a celebrity? Is this a reason?
Mrs Beyonce stay alone at the top of your celebrity stairs. For me you’re blacklisted, as a music singer. You’re too lordly to be a human. You’re too lordly to have an audience. You’re a kind of “music industry robot” than a human being. And the industry controlled robots it’s not my favorite!
After an initial wave of removals, clips of Beyonce’s fall seem to be making a resurgence on YouTube … not to mention several other video-sharing sites like Dailymotion and eBaum’s World.
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