SAVE the PRINCESS!

An all too familiar quest, I know.  Yet I implore you, my knights and my countrymen to rise once more to that most ancient and noble of quests. Save the Princess from the evil king(s).

Today's princess is, The Venetian Princess.  "The female Weird Al", "YouTube's #1 Most Subscribed Female"...and this is the plea from her tower:

Copied from Facebook:

Venetian Princess: Three of my videos have been claimed as copyright infringement by Sony Publishing. "Accident Prone" was completely removed from YouTube, while "Just A Zombie" and "Outerspace" are now monetized by Sony. Meaning they are making money off of my hard work.

As you guys know, the US Law protects parodies under fair use. But most of my videos are not even the same music, Steve and I re-write generic songs. Especially "Outerspace"- that's a whole original song on it's own. A completely different musical composition from Poker Face. So I here I sit, pondering what to do with my YouTube videos, and what my future on YouTube will now look like. As most of you have noticed, I've taken a bit of a break to step away from YouTube within the last few months. I've been focusing on family and "real life." AND planning new content with new ideas for videos I anticipated premiering in September. Now I don't know what I can do. It seems that my rights have been taken away from me.

YouTube is my life, it is how I make a living. Now a big time corporation is actually taking money away from me- that could have gone to my mortgage. Like they really need it. The songs are original and they simply have no right to monetize my work. That being said, I don't know where the future lies for me in terms of youtube. But I do know that above all of this, you guys brought me to the success level I was able to get to. So even if I never make a video ever again, I want you guys to know I appreciate all of the wonderful support you all have given me. I could not have asked for anything more. YOU guys mean the world to me. Whether it's on YouTube or some other platform, I hope to share my passion of making videos with you again in some form or another.

Bye bye for now
♥ Jodie

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I am very interested what the U.S. Copyright Office & Google are going to do about this.

What does this mean for Google & YouTube?

What does this mean for you and I, my knights and my countrymen?! Let us find out! Let us take up the quest to use whatever news powers we have to raise this to the eyes of the network, to all YouTube users & to the world.