14 DAY TRIAL // As celebrity bloggers put it, from now on, if we want to know what comes after Friday, we’ll just have to check out calendars because Rebecca Black will no longer be singing to us the days of the week – at least, not on YouTube.
As the legal dispute for the rights to “Friday,” Black’s first single, also dubbed the best worst song and video combination known to man, is reaching new heights, Black has pulled it off YouTube.
A simple search on YouTube for “Rebecca Black Friday” or “Rebecca Black Friday Video” will return no relevant results, but just parodies and related fan-made videos.
When trying to access the video on pages on which it’s been embedded, the usual notice reads, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black. Sorry about that.”
TMZ says the reason why “Friday” got yanked off the website is to be found in the legal dispute between Ark Entertainment and Black and her mother.
Ark is the talent agency that claims to have discovered Black and which also funded her for her first single and video. Now, Black is looking to break free from it.
“The FUN, FUN, FUN is over... Rebecca Black has officially pulled her ‘Friday’ video off of YouTube ... and TMZ has learned it’s all over a fight over Rebecca’s image,” the e-zine says.
A rep for the young singer (who may also be the most hated singer of her age), confirms the news.
“We can confirm that we submitted a Take Down Notice to YouTube as a result of the dispute we have with Ark Music regarding the ‘Friday’ video,” the publicist says for TMZ.
“Black’s people have threatened legal action against Ark – the company is wrongfully exploiting her image and her song because Ark does not own the rights to either,” the e-zine explains.
In other words, Black was saying that Ark was making a profit off “Friday” (and not just on YouTube) and that all the money should have gone instead to Rebecca herself.
TMZ believes what prompted Black’s camp to pull the video altogether was the fact that, earlier this week, Ark set up “Friday” as a $2.99 YouTube rental, in a move that backfired because no one wanted to pay to see it.