{"id":13855,"date":"2026-04-10T02:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/sony-copyright-claimed-and-removed-rick-astleys-original-never-gonna-give-you-up-video-after-16\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:56:39","slug":"sony-copyright-claimed-and-removed-rick-astleys-original-never-gonna-give-you-up-video-after-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/sony-copyright-claimed-and-removed-rick-astleys-original-never-gonna-give-you-up-video-after-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony copyright-claimed and removed Rick Astley\u2019s original \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d video after 16&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has upvoted this into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/L8d7SgYg9dyi08rm2RevOs3rOy5VWLoXJ_jWUTUfxpI.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=b79ae81fa86c5b8668a44f62631f57e8137253f7\" alt=\"Sony copyright-claimed and removed Rick Astley\u2019s original \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d video after 16 years and 1.7B views after purchasing his historical music rights\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is the content we didn&#8217;t know we needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1sh0vjd\/sony_copyrightclaimed_and_removed_rick_astleys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has upvoted this into the stratosphere. This is the content we didn&#8217;t know we needed. Source: r\/videos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1sh0vjd\/sony_copyrightclaimed_and_removed_rick_astleys\/","_sweary_views":21775,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}