Rebecca Black's 'Friday' Video Removed From YouTube

UPDATE: Rebecca Black's music video "Friday" is back online thanks to VEVO: The video has been re-uploaded on "RebeccaBlackOnVEVO's Channel." See it below.

Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video, which racked up over 160 million views on YouTube, has been removed.

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The page to Black's official video included a notice that the video is "no longer available due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black," with a "Sorry about that" from YouTube.

A YouTube spokesperson offered TechCrunch the following statement on the matter:

YouTube takes copyright infringement very seriously. When we receive a complaint alleging that a video infringes another person or company’s copyrights, we remove that video. Users who believe that a video was removed in error can appeal the copyright takedown.

"Friday" was recently put behind a paywall and users were asked to pay $2.99 to access the video via YouTube Rentals. Access to the video--without the paywall--was restored, though it appears that the video has since been removed.

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Comments

[amaya sizer]

09:59 PM on 08/04/2011

Don't you have anything better to do than crack on a fourteen year old? This girl has been through a lot. She's been threatened, wished death, and horribly insulted. I feel bad for her.

[Sheriff J W Pepper]

01:06 PM on 07/11/2011

What is sad is people actually bought or liked this "music".
Music is dead and gone.
More junk still perpetuating from when MTV destroyed music back in 1982.

[Hassan Ali Hajipour]

01:03 AM on 06/22/2011

video has been removed again.
keep seeing this messge: "RebeccaBlackOnVEVO has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of our Community Guidelines."

[Whatdoyou thinkof this]

04:31 PM on 06/19/2011

Oh so sad.... here's something to replace Rebecca.... good for a laugh.. enjoy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVlY3ZTrBkw

[Whatdoyou thinkof this]

03:45 PM on 06/19/2011

It's Sunday... Sunday.... Gotta get my mop, gotta get my dust pan.... Gotta do those chores that have been piling up.... It's Sunday Sunday.... Can't wait until Monday.... back to my job.. back to the clean office.... back to the conversations that make my brain ache.... it's Sunday .. Sunday........

[Sheriff J W Pepper]

01:04 PM on 07/11/2011

it's Friday, Friday, Friday again . . . time to put a gun to my head.

[boba7576]

02:14 PM on 06/19/2011

I think she could have a good career in Porno's !

[Kofi Hymore]

12:54 PM on 06/19/2011

Oh no!!
How can we know what day it is?
and what day yesterday was?
And tomorow? and the nex day?
How shall weee so excited?
I feel so lost

[YourNewNeighbor]

05:22 PM on 06/18/2011

Oh, the HUMANITY!

LOL, Jimmy Fallon and Steven Colbert's version is much much better anyway!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/229352/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert-sings-friday-with-the-roots

[Veto Corleone]

04:51 PM on 06/18/2011

First her video , I hope she is next................

[missyj1]

10:18 AM on 06/19/2011

LOL!!!

[salawm]

04:03 PM on 06/18/2011

it's gone again. the vevo account also no longer exists.

[missyj1]

10:35 AM on 06/19/2011

Good!!!

[Linda C Gustafson]

12:05 PM on 06/18/2011

OK so never mind - here he is doing Friday! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4qqeE-AHIU&feature=related

[Linda C Gustafson]

12:04 PM on 06/18/2011

So, in case you have never seen this kid - Trevor - I'm happy to say that he's BACK in the Apple store, with a different song. That's the spirit, kid - don't let corporate greed get you down! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6jiDRatTU&playnext=1&list=PL437B9DC4749A0854

Truly recommended if you want a fix of 'gleeful abandon' - this kid is great!

[Linda C Gustafson]

12:00 PM on 06/18/2011

Wow - I guess that means that the video some kid posted on YouTube, which he made in an Apple store using their display equipment of him dancing to said Friday song (which was hilarious, by the way - I would be so proud if this was my kid, supreme light-hearted goofiness which was absolutely benign) is gone too. That's too bad, because I really got a huge smile from that. (But yes, the song itself - well, Edie Bricknell, move over - there's a new inane artist in town..."I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean..." EEEEEEEESH!)

[General Public]

03:03 AM on 06/18/2011

YouTube Rentals? What is this, a joke? Who in their right mind would pay to watch a YouTube video, especially one as awful as Rebecca Black's "Friday" video? It's only a music video of the worst song ever made.

[missyj1]

10:20 AM on 06/19/2011

No joke!!! I'm sure that someone told Rebecca that this was a good song and a "sure fire hit" but her mistake was that she believed them!!! Rebecca - it's a JOKE!!! The song SUCKS!!! My 8 year old could write a better song and my dog could perform it better.

[DonCosenza]

02:26 AM on 06/18/2011

You guys have the wrong idea. They are not asking for $2.99 to watch 'Friday'... they are asking for $2.99 to let you stop watching 'Friday'.