Taylor Swift angered the 6 million fans of popular youtuber Shane Dawson when her label deleted a parody they found controversial. Tons of members of the youtube community are appalled at Taylor's attempts to censor the internet. The clip features a man murdering his gf, stalking taylor, meeting her, murdering her security, and finally killing her and sowing her face on.
You don't mess with Taylor Swift - just ask YouTuber Shane Dawson.
The controversial RACIST (just an add in from Rudeboyy) YouTube star recently uploaded a video to his channel parodying Taylor Swift's Blank Space song. According to Dawson, Taylor Swift's managers were not fans of his video and asked for it to be removed
"As most of you guys know, last week, or two weeks ago, my Taylor Swift spoof for Blank Space was taken down," he said. "The reason it was taken down was because Sony, Taylor Swift's record label, didn't like it. Didn't like it. They're using the fact that it's copy-written. You can't do a copy-written song.
"That's why they took it down, but the reality is, they just didn't like it," Dawson continued.
"It was too gross. It was too violent. It was just like 'Ew.' But it's not copywritten because it's a parody. If parodies were copywritten … all of my other parodies … would be deleted. But all of that ****'s still there.
Taylor had nothing to do with this though Does he think she sits around perusing the internet, sending links to her record label's copyright department to have them taken down?
P.S. Shane, Taylor isn't even signed to Sony. She's signed to Big Machine, which has a distribution deal through Republic/Universal. Not Sony.
He has done parodies of other Taylor songs before and those videos are still up so he clearly went too far with the Blank Space one. Its not "freedom of speech" when you're trying to make suicide funny. Its just trash
And mess at him saying that its not copyrighted because its a parody. The instrumental that you used is copyrighted. And an even bigger mess at him talking about Sony when both of Taylor's record labels (Republic & Big Machine) are subsidiaries of Universal. This is either a publicity stunt or he's just stupid
Taylor had nothing to do with this though Does he think she sits around perusing the internet, sending links to her record label's copyright department to have them taken down?
"They didn't like it!" F at him thinking Universal bothered to even watch that parody. They probably opened the video, heard Blank Space and SWIFTLY took it down so people would stream the original version and everything would count towards Hot 100.
Taylor had nothing to do with this though Does he think she sits around perusing the internet, sending links to her record label's copyright department to have them taken down?
P.S. Shane, Taylor isn't even signed to Sony. She's signed to Big Machine, which has a distribution deal through Republic/Universal. Not Sony.
Maybe she saw it on Instagram or Tumblr, we already know she's addicted to them
He has done parodies of other Taylor songs before and those videos are still up so he clearly went too far with the Blank Space one. Its not "freedom of speech" when you're trying to make suicide funny. Its just trash
And mess at him saying that its not copyrighted because its a parody. The instrumental that you used is copyrighted. And an even bigger mess at him talking about Sony when both of Taylor's record labels (Republic & Big Machine) are subsidiaries of Universal. This is either a publicity stunt or he's just stupid
Big Machine isn't a subsidiary of Universal - it's an independent label. They've just hired Republic/Universal to distribute their stuff to stores.