YouTube to pay royalties to UK artists
Times Online reports that YouTube has agreed to pay royalties to UK artists for songs used in videos uploaded on the site. An agreement was ironed between YouTube and royalty-collecting society MCPS-PRS Alliance. The agreement calls for the video-sharing site to pay an undisclosed flat fee to license more than ten million pieces of music. The agreement means that YouTube video clips will no longer infringe on copyright in UK.
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Contrary to what most people think, it’s not in fact strictly legal to include recordings of UK artists’ music (even where it’s written by Alliance members) in YouTube videos, not until the PPL are on board anyway – see http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/09/google-youtube-music-in-videos-legal.html, which includes some further information I obtained from the MCPS-PRS Alliance about their YouTube deal which was not in the Alliance press release and has not otherwise been made public previously as far as I know.
By Improbulus on September 27, 2007 4:36 am
if its an undisclosed ammount then how is it distrbuted to the artists?
Ravi
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By ravi on January 12, 2009 4:17 pm