Alles over YouTube Music Content Takedown Continued | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2009-03-26 07:33:28
pregnantfridge writes "In the ongoing conflict between PRS for Music and YouTube over the takedown of all music related content in the UK, PRS for Music have created a new site, fairplayforcreators.com , exposing the views of the music writers impacted by the YouTube decision. I am not certain if these views have been editorially compromised but by reading a few pages, its clear to me that Music writers represented by PRS for Music are largely clueless about what the Internet and YouTube means to the music industry. Kind of explains why the music industry is in as much decline — and also why so much litigation takes place on the music writers behalf."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over YouTube, Universal in Talk on Music Video Site: sources | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Wired News: Top Stories | 2009-03-06 06:15:04
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google's YouTube and Universal Music Group are in talks to create a premium online music video service, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. If they reach a deal, the service could mark a significant step forward in Google's attempt to generate revenue from YouTube, which it acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. A deal would also represent a broadening of the sometimes fractious ties between YouTube and the media industry, which has on occasion ordered the popular video-sharing site to pull down clips of TV shows or music videos uploaded by users without the media companies' permission. Universal, the world's largest music label, and YouTube, the No. 1 U.S. video website, are in talks to create a stand-alone site to showcase music videos by Universal artists, according to three sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. The deal would ideally be broadened out to include videos by artists at the other major music labels -- Sony Music, EMI Group and Warner Music Group -- in a concept similar to the TV shows available on NBC Universal and News Corp's Hulu.com. Many of the details, such as financial terms and whether the service would be run as a joint venture, are still being worked out, the sources said. "UMG CEO Doug Morris came up with this idea to do a Hulu for music but only with premium music content," said one of the persons familiar with the matter, adding that other music companies have expressed interest. "We literally just started negotiations." VEVO Referred to by the placeholder name of "Vevo," the site would carry premium music videos and music-related content designed to garner higher advertising rates than now available through YouTube. Music companies typically get paid a share of any advertising revenue associated with a video on YouTube as well as a per-play payment for every video viewed. YouTube, which also offers a treasure trove of user-generated home videos along with professionally produced content, is the No. 1 video site in the United States with more than 100 million viewers in January, according to market research firm comScore. Hulu has also rapidly become popular, ranking sixth in the United States in January with 24.4 million viewers. Vevo could also tap other revenue streams through sales of items like concert tickets and merchandise, the sources said. The talks between YouTube and Universal Music -- whose artists include Kanye West, U2 and Amy Winehouse -- for a service backed by all the major labels have been held up by the video site's fallout with Warner Music, one of the sources said. Warner in December ordered YouTube to pull down all music videos on the site featuring Warner artists, after contract negotiations between the two sides broke down. Universal's current licensing deal with YouTube expires at the end of March, and a new deal is expected for April. EMI is also in contract renewal talks with YouTube. Sony Music renewed its contract with YouTube last month. YouTube said in a statement, "We are always working with our partners to find creative ways to connect music, musicians, and fans." Universal declined to comment. (Reporting by Yinka Adegoke; Additional reporting by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Tiffany Wu, Richard Chang)
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Alles over Warner to license music in YouTube videos | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-09-18 10:13:13
YouTube and Warner Music Group Corp. will announce a deal Monday that will put thousands of Warner music videos on the video sharing site and allow user created videos to legally use Warner owned music, according to a story tonight from the Associated Press. YouTube is reported to have created technology that will automatically detect when copyrighted music is used in videos, give Warner the right to accept or reject those videos and will calculate the royalty fees Warner is owed. Financial details havent been disclosed yet, but may include a cut of advertising revenue in exchange for licensing rights. Its also unclear who will pay the royalty fees; that payment may come out of the advertising revenue or it may be demanded of the individual users who have put Warner music in their videos. That could get interesting. Warners last experiment on YouTube, the Paris Hilton channel - was widely seen as a failure.This is big news, as the legal dilemma of copyrighted content has been the primary barrier to YouTubes possible acquisition and has presumably cost the company in possible advertising revenues. If a similar deal can be made with other record labels, the landscape of user generated content could be changed radically. The Warner deal stands in major opposition with the position of Universal, whose CEO Doug Morris said last week that YouTube and MySpace owed the label millions. Morris indicated that a legal challenge might be forthcoming. While its very exciting that a new model is being created, the caveat that Warner will have effective veto power over videos using their music is particularly interesting. In effect its just a technological realization of the long standing policy reality - YouTube has willingly pulled copyrighted content on request for some time. While DRM has been understood as a prerequisite for online distribution of major label content, this announcement seems to indicate a switch in responsibilities. Instead of the distributor locking down the content by default, use is open by default and can be closed at the rights holders discretion. Its a very real recognition of the promotional power of copyrighted content being reused in original art. I think its great news.We first covered technology capable of detecting copyrighted content in the case of video distributer Guba, who has developed a system code named Johnny that detects copyrighted video. We also wrote about online social network Faces (disclosure: now a sponsor) that counts all music played against an internet radio license. I hope that tomorrows Warner/YouTube announcement is a sign of times to come; when technology like this is used to protect rights holders baseline interests but in the context of widespread free use.YouTubeTags: Techcrunch, Web2.0, YouTube, music, DRM, Warnter, videos, Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/23530456/ Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/39192
Alles over New features for YouTube | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-08-20 01:54:44
Tonight YouTube went down for a few hours for scheduled maintenance and came back up with a few new features. First is customized URLs, which allows you to choose a customized URL for your channel, to make sharing your videos and favorites with friends easier. As I understand it this will allow video publishers to ditch URLs like youtube.com/profile?user=someuser and replace them with something more memorable. The second is YouTube Music, a new section for musicians to post their music videos.This presumably fits in with YouTubes plan to host every music video ever created and compete with MySpace Music, but so far it seems pretty incompletethe YouTube Music section looks just like other channel areas on YouTube, making it very difficult to find your favorite artists. I can only assume this is slated to improve soon.YouTube has also made some minor refinements to the display that appears at the end of a video. Oh, and theres one other change worth mentioning: They changed their Play button. The round Play button that used to appear on YouTube videos embedded in other web sites has been replaced by a more distinctive lozenge shape. The control area still looks as ugly as ever, though.Theres now an post on the official YouTube blog discussing the changes.ReadSource: http://fanpotai.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/new-features-for-youtube/ Vash the Stampede http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/27798
