YouTube Sensation Rebecca Black No Longer on YouTube

Rebecca Black has taken her single "Friday" down from YouTube, stating copyright claim.

Padmini Harchandrai|Jun 17, 2011, 11:15:15 IST

One little Katy Perry video and Rebecca Black thinks she's all that. YouTube sensation, Black has pulled her video, "Friday" down from YouTube, with a copyright claim. The video itself has a history of being pulled down, with it recently being available to rent on YouTube for $2.99 (Rs. 134 approx) and it went back to being free right away. It had been viewed more than 167 million times, so essentially a YouTube sensation no longer exists on YouTube. Funny enough, the original video is still available, free to watch, on an educational site called SchoolTube.

Rebecca Black taken down

This is the statement that YouTube made in response to the video being taken down:

“YouTube takes copyright infringement very seriously. When we receive a complaint alleging that a video infringes another person or company’s copyrights, we remove that video. Users who believe that a video was removed in error can appeal the copyright takedown.”

By Padmini Harchandrai

Paddy does not, we repeat, definitely does NOT belong in the category of Mac-head (yeh right!). She does get excited by her iPhone and her iMac and her iPod Nano and her Macbook and Bali's iPad and her future iHouse (patent pending). Ok, so maybe her head is a little bit forbidden fruit shaped. She likes shooting video (iPhone 4 camera zindabad!) and editing montages (Final Cut Pro zindabad!), whether the scene calls for it or no. In her spare time, she's either kicking it on stage with KB the keyboard or kicking butt at Taekwondo.