As many Jay Sankey fans know, there have been allot of Jay's video clips on Youtube. Many of the clips are from fans, dealers and even Jay himself. Some of the clips were not the greatest quality, so Jay had some of them removed ( imagine working on a project for seems like forever and then a hard to view video clip doesn't show it for what it really is ).


Here's what Jay has to say about it all:

"There's been some buzz about my recent decision to ask the folks atYoutube to remove some videos and I just wanted to be clear that this was NOT in response to any company or individual doing a darn thing "wrong."

Instead, I was receiving so many emails for fans complaining about notbeing able to "find" some of my new comedy videos on Youtube because therewere over 500 videos (!!!) tagged with "jay sankey," "sankey magic,""short bald Canadian dice magician," etc.

In addition, many of the product preview clips were either out-of-date or the resolution quality was so low that it hurt me to know they were even on Youtube. So my plan is to first "clean it up a bit" and then continue postingoutrageous comedy videos, killer new magic clips and lots more.

I have also been in touch with the copyright dept at Youtube and explained to them in great detail that "nobody did anything wrong, unethical or suspect" by posting all those videos. Thanks as always guys for the gracious interest and much appreciated support.

Hope you are all enjoying the weather and are having a blast with
your card tricks outdoors. Lord knows pretty soon the days will get even
warmer and we'll all have to stick to air-conditioned spaces (or attempt
double lifts with heat-swollen decks as big as baseballs!)

Long live real magic,
Jay

Oh well Christopher that explains everything.

Why didn't he bother to send something out via Murphy's to the supporting dealers before he took the action that resulted in us and dealers all over the world receiving multiple notices like this from YouTube?.
Dear Member:
This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by sankey magic inc. claiming that this material is infringing:

Revolutionary Coin Magic by Jay Sankey: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSIE7QYBK8

Please Note: Repeated incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to prevent this from happening, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights and refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights of others.


Despite emails from us to Sankey Magic and Jay personally, we have not had the courtesy of a response it just does not ring true to me. Anyone wanting to find Sankey Magic comedy clips can go find them at Sankey Magic.com

I believe that this is just more to do with the fact that 3 weeks ago Sankey Magic registered on YouTube and currently has 9 videos uploaded there.

Megalomania springs to mind. We dedicate a huge amount of space in our DVD racks to Sankey products and we run a server based clip demo screen in the shop where people can view authorised and produced by Sankey Magic clips of those same DVD's. That is great for people coming into our shop, but what about the E-commerce and telephone customers, until Thursday we could direct them to our YouTube site where they could view the clips. Alas they do not have this option any longer.

The general feeling is that this will seriously impact on the Sankey brand just like the other escapade a couple of years ago did

Anyhow until we have a workable solution, we will not be re-stocking any Sankey Magic products

Best regards
Jaz