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A musician recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar. During his final exchange with the United Customer Relations Manager, he stated that he was left with no choice other than to create a music video for You Tube exposing their lack of cooperation. The manager responded : "Good luck with that one, pal."

So he posted a retaliatory video on You Tube. The video has since received over 9 million hits. United Airlines contacted the musician and attempted settlement in exchange for pulling the video. Naturally his response was: "Good luck with that one, pal".

Taylor Guitars sent the musician 2 new custom guitars in appreciation for the product recognition from the video that has lead to a sharp increase in orders.

Here's the video:

THIS IS AWESOME

There's obviously some copyright laws, but I wonder if Google pays him for this video. He'd make a lot with that many hits.

Allanfan20 wrote:There's obviously some copyright laws, but I wonder if Google pays him for this video. He'd make a lot with that many hits.

Come to think of it, I think all he'd have to do is Blur out the logo on his guitar and he'd be good to go. He makes out even more.

Allanfan20 wrote:There's obviously some copyright laws, but I wonder if Google pays him for this video. He'd make a lot with that many hits.

I believe 6 million hits is the magic number to be made a millionaire for origianl content due to advertising. Like you said, I don't know how the copyright laws affect this, but I'll assume that he's a millionaire by now. The more people that see it, the more valuable the content, and the more per click ad revenue is generated

SupremeCommander wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:There's obviously some copyright laws, but I wonder if Google pays him for this video. He'd make a lot with that many hits.

I believe 6 million hits is the magic number to be made a millionaire for origianl content due to advertising. Like you said, I don't know how the copyright laws affect this, but I'll assume that he's a millionaire by now. The more people that see it, the more valuable the content, and the more per click ad revenue is generated

Great song and video.

Question for anyone:
Does it count as a hit if I watch the video embedded in this thread? or do I have to go to YouTube directly and watch it. (Easy to do, just double the video in the thread?

Highest rated YouTube comment on this video:

"Dave, we are now willing to replace your Taylor guitar with no strings attached."
Sincerely
- United Airlines

Markji wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:There's obviously some copyright laws, but I wonder if Google pays him for this video. He'd make a lot with that many hits.

I believe 6 million hits is the magic number to be made a millionaire for origianl content due to advertising. Like you said, I don't know how the copyright laws affect this, but I'll assume that he's a millionaire by now. The more people that see it, the more valuable the content, and the more per click ad revenue is generated

Great song and video.

Question for anyone:
Does it count as a hit if I watch the video embedded in this thread? or do I have to go to YouTube directly and watch it. (Easy to do, just double the video in the thread?

Highest rated YouTube comment on this video:

"Dave, we are now willing to replace your Taylor guitar with no strings attached."
Sincerely
- United Airlines

I doubt that's actually them.

I think you have to go to that link to give it a hit.

Allanfan20 wrote:

Markji wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:There's obviously some copyright laws, but I wonder if Google pays him for this video. He'd make a lot with that many hits.

I believe 6 million hits is the magic number to be made a millionaire for origianl content due to advertising. Like you said, I don't know how the copyright laws affect this, but I'll assume that he's a millionaire by now. The more people that see it, the more valuable the content, and the more per click ad revenue is generated

Great song and video.

Question for anyone:
Does it count as a hit if I watch the video embedded in this thread? or do I have to go to YouTube directly and watch it. (Easy to do, just double the video in the thread?

Highest rated YouTube comment on this video:

"Dave, we are now willing to replace your Taylor guitar with no strings attached."
Sincerely
- United Airlines

I doubt that's actually them.

I think you have to go to that link to give it a hit.

Of course it isn't really from United Airlines. It was a sarcastic joke - that is why it has received the highest ratings of all of the comments to the video.