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Death Cab videos disappear from band’s site, thanks to label - Ars Technica

On what is now old news, Warner Music Group’s campaign to mute or take-down offending music videos from YouTube has affected at least one of its better-known own.

On its website, the band Death Cab for Cutie pulls in its own music videos from YouTube. The problem arose when the band’s permitted use of its own video became part of the YouTube DMCA action.

The videos disappeared for a while, replaced instead with this sentence: “This video no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG.” It appears that WMG mistakenly went so far as to stake a claim against its own. It’s just a little bit humorous.

(The problem is now remedied; the videos are back up.)