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YouTube Brings Back Silent Movies

Jan 14th, 2009 | By | Category: Podcasting Law

YouTube is bringing back silent movies – by censoring at least some videos that make use of unauthorized copyrighted music.

Here’s an example:

More examples here and here. 

YouTube displays this message under the videos:

These videos cry out for remixing with some alternate music, don’t they?

via Mashable

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