"Hamster On A Piano" Eats Popcorn, Inspires Copyfight [Don't Be Cruel (to Parry Gripp)]

"Hamster On A Piano," former Nerf Herder vocalist Parry Gripp's ode to a hamster chilling on a piano key while clutching a big piece of Orville Redenbacher, was a big hit around these parts, so the news that the video had to be recut because of a copyright-infringement claim on the part of the video's original creator was something of a bummer. And then, thanks to said YouTube auteur's ignorance regarding the idea that "copyright" extends to musical works, it became yet another laughable example...

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