Deleted video deleted

YouTube has deleted a video that I have used many times in this blog. The video is a collection of scenes that were deleted from the finished movie Dirty Dancing.

I am pretty sure that there were several copies of that video on YouTube, but it seems that all of them have been deleted.

I suppose that YouTube deleted all of them because of a copyright complaint. The video is an extra feature on the DVDs that are sold.

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Although such a copyright complaint is valid, and the copyright owners certainly must prevent other people from providing and profiting from the entire movie.

However, I suggest that making copyright complaints against rather short videoclips is counter-productive. Free and available videoclips help to maintain the public's interest in the movie. Interested people watch the movie on cable television, buy tickets to watch the stage musical, and buy DVDs to give as presents.

The copyright owners have earned millions of dollars and will continue to earn millions of dollars forever. They can afford to let enthusiastic fans put some short videoclips on the Internet.

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Many of my articles on this blog have used this video of deleted scenes in order to analyze the movie. Unfortunately, now my readers can see only this: