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Google has a lot of excuses for why they profit from piracy, but what is inexcusable is how YouTube profits from hate videos and war porn. YouTube is the communication medium of choice for another group of anti-Semites. MORE
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In response to Mr. Azoff, one of the few in the music industry who has stood up to Google , a YouTube star asked why does the music industry keep taking the money from YouTube if it’s so awful. Uncategorized YouTube Meltdown Irving Azoff YouTube MORE
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You’ll hear a lot of trash talk about Lyor Cohen, but credit where it’s due–he gave an interview that interested me about how he sees his role at YouTube. So when Irving Azoff says of Google that YouTube doesn’t pay artists and songwriters adequately–even the top songwriters in the world who are members of Irving’s Global Music Rights–that’s entirely consistent with the predatory business model Jim DeLong identified. MORE
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We began noticing how Google started favoring YouTube in search results as well as it’s other products. Senators Tillis and Lee want to know if it’s the same with YouTube. In total, over the past three years YouTube received more than $34 billion in advertising revenue.4. MORE
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They say it’s news when man bites dog, but it is also news when Lyor Cohen invites YouTube audits–or maybe even an SEC investigation. But Lyor seems to think promoting how much YouTube has paid to artists is going to make people feel better. MORE
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Reuters reports that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gave a series of live interviews on YouTube last Thursday to young social media celebrities, including French vlogger Laetitia Birbes who said that “YouTube’s idea was to do in Europe what they’re already doing in the U.S. MORE
If you’ve been following the YouTube advertising debacle, you may have seen reports that YouTube is planning on offering discounts (aka refunds) to the advertising accounts it burned by showing ads on terror, hate and other videos in violation of Google’s promises (aka contracts) with those advertisers. So why is YouTube having this problem? That’s why YouTube promised not to serve ads in those places in the first place. MORE
After doing that, YouTube’s attack on labels at MIDEM is triangulation of the first water particularly because I think that YouTube is simply a data profiling honeypot disguised as a video service. So here is the question: Is “YouTube for Artists” masking Google’s massive failure to innovate? I asked two working artists and artist rights advocates Blake Morgan and David Lowery what they thought about YouTube’s campaign. MORE
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Very insightful reporting from Rob Copeland at WSJ on Google’s revenue that culls out YouTube’s share of Google’s revenue–and boy are we getting hosed. Alphabet said YouTube exceeded $15 billion in annual revenue in 2019. MORE
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Imagine walking into a product manager’s office and telling them to forget putting the band’s videos on YouTube because it’s worthless. YouTube is a key part of our marketing plan, and so on. of YouTube’s overall usage. MORE
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You’re going to need a bigger boat… You’ve probably seen a lot of handwringing in the press from YouTube about the Google-subsidized division isn’t profitable. If you look at YouTube as a video service, maybe Google can cook the books to show whatever they want. MORE
After doing that, YouTube’s attack on labels at MIDEM is triangulation of the first water particularly because I think that YouTube is simply a data profiling honeypot disguised as a video service. So here is the question: Is “YouTube for Artists” masking Google’s massive failure to innovate? I asked two working artists and artist rights advocates Blake Morgan and David Lowery what they thought about YouTube’s campaign. MORE
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YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki is frantically wheeling around Europe this week in a despairing effort to establish a US-style safe harbor in Europe and undermine Article 13, the Copyright Directive for a Digital Single Market. Let’s understand that the very concept of a safe harbor for YouTube has its roots deep in the pirate utopias of Internet culture–a fact that may get overlooked if you aren’t a student of the Silicon Valley groundwater. MORE
But like all indies, I have to make a choice—do I let YouTube and others just rip me off or do I try to stop it despite the burdens. Here’s a new YouTube tactic that I first thought was a mistake when it happened recently, but they tried it again today, so now I think it’s pretty much just “the new stall tactic.” . Back to my claim—the Music Department at YouTube confirmed that my metadata was fine and accurate after all, and deferred to YouTube Copyright. MORE
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Like every other awful thing in the world, a search for “animal crush” on YouTube brings you a slew of horror, all of which is available to children as well as the deranged. creepy youtube YouTube Kids Scam YouTube Meltdown Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act Rep.
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They say it’s news when man bites dog, but it is also news when Lyor Cohen invites YouTube audits–or maybe even an SEC investigation. But Lyor seems to think promoting how much YouTube has paid to artists is going to make people feel better.
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JULY 4, 2020
YouTube, of course, has never been too terribly interested in anything that moves users away from advertising, hence the many failed efforts at launching a YouTube subscription service by a company that knows more about user behavior than anyone in history.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2019
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DECEMBER 29, 2019
Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen and Lucas Shaw have written one of the most revealing stories yet about just how out of control YouTube really is and just how incompetent YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is to handle it all (“ Inside YouTube’s Year of Responsibility “). (How How Susan W came to have the YouTube job I’m sure has nothing to do with being the ex-sister-in-law of Google founder Sergei Brin.).
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AUGUST 10, 2020
We began noticing how Google started favoring YouTube in search results as well as it’s other products. Senators Tillis and Lee want to know if it’s the same with YouTube. In total, over the past three years YouTube received more than $34 billion in advertising revenue.4.
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FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Very insightful reporting from Rob Copeland at WSJ on Google’s revenue that culls out YouTube’s share of Google’s revenue–and boy are we getting hosed. Alphabet said YouTube exceeded $15 billion in annual revenue in 2019.
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OCTOBER 2, 2016
Lyor Cohen is going to run YouTube Music. First, remember that YouTube has made a point of telling us how unimportant music is to their business. Why it is that YouTube has such little clout internally is anyone’s guess. So how could Lyor repair the problems with YouTube?
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JUNE 7, 2015
After doing that, YouTube’s attack on labels at MIDEM is triangulation of the first water particularly because I think that YouTube is simply a data profiling honeypot disguised as a video service. So here is the question: Is “YouTube for Artists” masking Google’s massive failure to innovate? I asked two working artists and artist rights advocates Blake Morgan and David Lowery what they thought about YouTube’s campaign.
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JUNE 8, 2015
After doing that, YouTube’s attack on labels at MIDEM is triangulation of the first water particularly because I think that YouTube is simply a data profiling honeypot disguised as a video service. So here is the question: Is “YouTube for Artists” masking Google’s massive failure to innovate? I asked two working artists and artist rights advocates Blake Morgan and David Lowery what they thought about YouTube’s campaign.
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MARCH 29, 2019
Wired tells us: [Article 13’s upload filters are] likely to be disruptive, for YouTube as for everyone else. But if anyone is going to eventually benefit from this, in the long run, that is YouTube. Any idea how many new videos were uploaded to YouTube in that time?
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MARCH 18, 2019
“What no one tells you about Article 13” As we’ve read in recent reporting from Europe, Google’s Susan Wojcicki has been twisting arms among their “YouTubers” to put out videos not only opposing Article 13, but also using the Google party line.
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MAY 20, 2015
Heat Vision Television Television Culture Tech THR Online YouTubeTwo Japanese companies duel over who owns Ultraman outside his country of origin. read more. THR, Esq.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
[Editor Charlie sez: We’re pleased to publish this guest post on YouTube written by Maria Schneider , a five-time GRAMMY-winning composer and bandleader, a board member of the Council of Music Creators , and an active supporter of MusicAnswers.org.]. youtube class action YouTube Meltdown
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MARCH 21, 2016
I had the good fortune to participate in a SXSW panel about the mechanics of YouTube revenues. YTP, YTPC= “ YouTube Partner “, “YouTube Partner Channel”. Music Tech Solutions.
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DECEMBER 3, 2018
” Actually, you don’t have to go as high as God–Google, YouTube and Facebook know exactly what it’s doing to our children’s brains. And then YouTube uses its seeding accounts on other social media to praise the lobbying campaign and create spin.
Music Technology Policy
APRIL 29, 2016
Now YouTube has announced that it will hold money on ContentID claims unless the YouTube account files a counternotification, including ones based on the poster’s interpretation of fair use. If the lawsuit isn’t filed, then YouTube releases the money.
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JUNE 21, 2018
You’ll hear a lot of trash talk about Lyor Cohen, but credit where it’s due–he gave an interview that interested me about how he sees his role at YouTube. So when Irving Azoff says of Google that YouTube doesn’t pay artists and songwriters adequately–even the top songwriters in the world who are members of Irving’s Global Music Rights–that’s entirely consistent with the predatory business model Jim DeLong identified.
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MAY 4, 2016
Imagine walking into a product manager’s office and telling them to forget putting the band’s videos on YouTube because it’s worthless. YouTube is a key part of our marketing plan, and so on. of YouTube’s overall usage.
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki is frantically wheeling around Europe this week in a despairing effort to establish a US-style safe harbor in Europe and undermine Article 13, the Copyright Directive for a Digital Single Market. Let’s understand that the very concept of a safe harbor for YouTube has its roots deep in the pirate utopias of Internet culture–a fact that may get overlooked if you aren’t a student of the Silicon Valley groundwater.
Music Technology Policy
MARCH 3, 2015
And of course YouTube has gotten away with it so far, just like Google has with so many of its bad acts. Video sites like YouTube sell ad time to companies, and the ads get automatically inserted before the videos play. Ads before isis video on YouTube?
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JANUARY 16, 2009
Further follow up to my post on Wednesday regarding YouTube’s automated audio-muting of user-generated videos containing unlicensed music… According to this piece at the Hollywood Reporter. YouTube is taking things a step further… allowing users to REPLACE offending music in video soundtracks with pre-cleared music… (automatically?). Tags: copyright Film youtube Entertainment law fair use Intellectual property First Amendment
Music Technology Policy
MARCH 28, 2017
via @tpoletti: Google’s YouTube ad controversy should scare investors — Artist Rights Watch. creepy youtube YouTube Meltdown YouTube ScandalWhen is an “ad credit” actually a refund? As Chris wrote on MusicTech.Solutions, Google advertisers should be entitled to refunds stretching back years for Google’s failure to live up to its promises to protect advertisers from their ads appearing in terror videos.
Music Technology Policy
AUGUST 13, 2015
What Google is essentially accomplishing is moving its riskier business lines under separate managers under the new Alphabet holding company but is leaving search, Android and YouTube in Google. (It What About YouTube? So why is YouTube still combined with search?
Music Technology Policy
MAY 15, 2016
[We’re pleased to post this open letter to YouTube written by Maria Schneider , a five-time GRAMMY-winning composer and bandleader, a board member of the Council of Music Creators , and an active supporter of MusicAnswers.org.]. Open Letter to YouTube, “Pushers” of Piracy.
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OCTOBER 8, 2012
From the Hollywood Reporter: Sarah Silverman and others announce new YouTube channels and content here. In addition, more than sixty (yup, 60) new channels will make their debuts on YouTube. New YouTube partners include Endemol and the BBC. More info
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AUGUST 20, 2017
The place where we have problems, of course, is with the New Boss companies like YouTube, Google and Facebook. I was honored last year to have been asked to participate in a symposium on moral rights co-sponsored by the U.S.
Music Technology Policy
OCTOBER 27, 2013
Google has a lot of excuses for why they profit from piracy, but what is inexcusable is how YouTube profits from hate videos and war porn. YouTube is the communication medium of choice for another group of anti-Semites.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
JANUARY 27, 2012
Eriq Gardner One rap artist speaks out against UMG, YouTube, and SOPA. Music Music Tech Business Universal Music Group YouTube SOPAread more. THR, Esq.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Another YouTube fish story. The Values Gap redux: Must read post by James Bridle on the truly bizarre goings on at YouTube Kids. I’ve also been aware for some time of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between younger children and YouTube.
Music Technology Policy
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
Here’s another monetized YouTube video about how to self-inject…what exactly? It’s from the playlist “ How to shoot dope “ #YTMA
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JUNE 8, 2016
In response to Mr. Azoff, one of the few in the music industry who has stood up to Google , a YouTube star asked why does the music industry keep taking the money from YouTube if it’s so awful. Uncategorized YouTube Meltdown Irving Azoff YouTube
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MARCH 24, 2014
According to The Information : YouTube is reaching out to video producers to gauge their interest in producing child-oriented content. The project comes amid a management transition at YouTube that could cause delays. YouTube has, of course, always catered to kids. youtube
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APRIL 16, 2012
The Business Tech Business Google MPAA Viacom YouTubeEriq Gardner What did the Second Circuit really say in its recent verdict on Viacom's appeal? Hollywood studios offer a reading. The cyberlocker has its own interpretation. There's no peace in ongoing copyright wars. read more. THR, Esq.
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MAY 16, 2013
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MARCH 30, 2017
If you’ve been following the YouTube advertising debacle, you may have seen reports that YouTube is planning on offering discounts (aka refunds) to the advertising accounts it burned by showing ads on terror, hate and other videos in violation of Google’s promises (aka contracts) with those advertisers. So why is YouTube having this problem? That’s why YouTube promised not to serve ads in those places in the first place.
Music Technology Policy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Reuters reports that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gave a series of live interviews on YouTube last Thursday to young social media celebrities, including French vlogger Laetitia Birbes who said that “YouTube’s idea was to do in Europe what they’re already doing in the U.S.
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JULY 2, 2017
via @davidclowery: Does Google Use Dominance in Search to Steer Traffic to “Unofficial” YouTube Videos? — Google Antitrust Investigation In a Goolag State of Mind YouTube MeltdownAdmittedly this is an unscientific sampling.
Music Technology Policy
MARCH 5, 2015
You’re going to need a bigger boat… You’ve probably seen a lot of handwringing in the press from YouTube about the Google-subsidized division isn’t profitable. If you look at YouTube as a video service, maybe Google can cook the books to show whatever they want.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
MAY 11, 2010
By Matthew Belloni Three of the major Hollywood studios have joined performing rights associations in supporting Viacom’s $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube. Tags: Copyright Fair Use IP/Tech Web/Tech YouTube An amicus brief was filed Friday in New York by a coalition including Warner Bros., NBC Universal.
Music Technology Policy
JANUARY 23, 2014
Nowhere is Google’s involvement with trafficking more obvious and easier to fix than in Google’s YouTube property. YTMA Jim Hood Pam Bondi YouTube and Human Trafficking January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
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