American superstar Prince has kicked up a storm with new Twitter app Vine - a program that lets users record and send six-second video clips to each other - after finding that eight clips hosted by the company contained some of his own music.
According to Rolling Stone, Prince - who’s known to be extremely vigilant about the improper use of his music, especially on the internet - and his label NPG Records served Vine and Twitter with a copyright complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Filed on March 22nd, the complaint claims that ‘unauthorized recordings’ and ‘unauthorized synchronizations’ were found in eight Vine recordings. All the videos have since been removed - but you can check out the official complaint on Chilling Effect here.
Although it may seem a rather unnecessary thing to complain about, he is apparently not the first person to lodge a similar complaint about Vine recordings according to a Twitter spokesperson.
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