Neon Sex People video is the latest victim of the spat between Warners and YouTube – it has been pulled from YouTube. Big deal, it happens etc (although for the record this is the first time for me).

The weird thing the eagle eyed might have spotted though – unless there’s some backscene dealing or selling of back catalogue I don’t know about, there isn’t any WMG content in the video?

Break it down:

Depeche Mode ‘People are People’ – MUTE (EMI)
Latour’s People are Still Having Sex – Polydor (Universal UMG)
Neon Neon – Lex Records which is supposed to be independent.

I’m scratching my head about this…Stupid YouTube, wondering whether mentioning it might get my other videos pulled or whether it’s worth fighting. Probably not if you read their dispute procedure:

Under certain circumstances, you may dispute the copyright claim from WMG. These may be any of the following:

* the content is mistakenly identified and is actually completely your original creation;
* you believe that your use does not infringe copyright (e.g. it is fair use under US law);
* you are actually licensed by the owner to use this content.

Hmm can’t fulfill the first one totally (although I’ve not been told it’s a problem either) but it’s weird YouTube are wrongly tagging videos as having Warners music when they don’t.

Has anyone successfully disputed these? I know YouTube has a deal with Universal, Sony and EMI that videos with their content get licensed, so it shouldn’t be an instant ‘no’ – but I think they’ve got it wrong in this case. Having them poke around my YouTube account might cause more aggro though.

Thankfully I uploaded it to Facebook and Myspace – so it’s still available here:

Neon Sex People (DM vs Neon Neon vs Latour) mashup vid

EDIT: Managed to find out more info – it’s People are People which it’s claiming is Warners – news to me, Depeche Mode are signed to Mute it looks like it was issued in Japan on Warners (nowhere else), which is spurious at best as the rest of the world was EMI or other record companies – just block it in Japan then – that doesn’t mean they own the rights to it for the rest of the world, esp. when EMI who controls the other areas including here in the UK DOES have a deal with YouTube. It’s a minefield.

Or did WMG buy the Depeche Mode back catalogue? If so a lot of DM bootlegs are going to get pulled? I doubt that since DM are signed to EMI still…who knows….

The 3rd Live! Radio Clash, this is in honour of From Brussels With Love – the first album on Les Disques Du Crépuscule
the Belgium Factory-Benelux related label finally re-released on CD, and has some amazing tracks on it, from modern classical to new wave to early electronic/new romantic, some of which make it onto this Radio Clash, some will in future. Go get it!

Also in this show is Cuddle the Present mk2 – the second in my electro-inspired mixes, gleefully and lovingly ripping off err, inspired by 50 Pound Note’s excellent Kiss the Future mixes. It’s all his fault…in fact I put in one of his mixes, a great mix of Gino Soccio – Jeb’s one to watch.

Mixed but not stirred: (76Mb, 97mins) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_113.mp3

• John Foxx – Jingle #2*
• Kevin Hewick & New Order – Haystack*
• The Chosen Few – I Second That Emotion
• Climax Blues Band – Couldn’t Get It Right (from Guilty Pleasures)

Cuddle the Present pt 2:

• Kerrier District (aka Luke Vibert) – Disco Nasty
• GoodBooks – Leni (Crystal Castles Remix)
• Celebrity Murder Party – We Want Titties And a Robot
• Obvious Productions – Standing In The Way Of Your Friends
• spakatronik – you know what I mean
• Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life
• Giorgio Moroder – From Here To Eternity
• Gino Soccio – Victim Of Change ( 50 Note “Remember The Ectomorph” Mix)
• Agent Graves - L.F.aer.O.dynamik
• Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill
• LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum
• Scissor System – Music is the Victim
• Kids on TV – Breakdance Hunx (Market Value Mix) – their Myspace Censorship page
• Hearing Double & JCB Soundsystem – London, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (from LCD Remixed)

• Harold Budd – Children On The Hill*
• Robert Wyatt – I’m A Believer
• Thomas Dolby – Airwaves*
• Michael Nyman – Drowning By Numbers #3*
• Mr Hopkinson’s Computer – Falling

* from the compilation / act featured on compilation.