UPDATED at 11:45 p.m. to reflect channel’s status.
It seemed slightly outlandish that Viacom would upload videos and later issue a takedown notice, as Google has asserted during the company’s ongoing skirmish with YouTube.
Now, BoingBoing has reported that Sony blocked Beyonce’s videos on copyright grounds. Sony owns Beyonce’s record label, and therefore blocked their *own* promotional channel. That’s genius.
Meanwhile, my attempts to access the channel this afternoon delivered a “Service Unavailable” message, meaning Sony may have asked YouTube to work on fixing it. However, late Sunday night, the channel was restored, but the videos were still inaccessible.
SOURCE: BoingBoing via Gawker
