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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. MORE
” 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. None of this should came as a surprise–YouTube has a long history of failing to protect children from a host of unsavory activities on YouTube. MORE
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. That’s the most likely meaning of “dispute process” in the little YouTube picture below. If the lawsuit isn’t filed, then YouTube releases the money. So YouTube will continue to monetize infringing content–stop right there. MORE
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. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall… But seriously, like any large organization, Google has competing bureaucracies and therefore its wholly-owned subsidiary YouTube does as well. ( Google is now the largest media company in the world.) Why it is that YouTube has such little clout internally is anyone’s guess. MORE
According to Wired (“ Don’t believe the hype: Article 13 is great news for YouTube “), YouTube is positioned to be a big winner due to the Article 13 requirement for “upload filters” If you’re keeping your brackets for “Most Googlely Journalist” in the post-Article 13 March Madness spin, Wired gets the three point play on this post–there are no upload filters in Article 13, so not quite sure what Wired is getting at here. MORE
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Gamers beware – YouTube will take you down for “Let’s Play” videos. A flurry of activity occurred in early December as YouTube users posting “Let’s Play” videos, which generally feature recorded gameplay with running commentary by the user, were hit with Content ID takedown claims resulting in thousands of blocked videos. What’s more interesting is YouTube activated this round of Content ID matches without the support of the game developers. MORE
Here’s another monetized YouTube video about how to self-inject…what exactly? It’s from the playlist “ How to shoot dope “ #YTMA MORE
[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.]. After all, it’s not fair to legal whorehouses that pay their share of taxes to lump them with meth labs and YouTube. Google and YouTube facilitate the theft of billions of dollars in stolen intellectual property. MORE
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
[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. Hank Green’s recent open letter in support of YouTube (that was in response to Irving Azoff’s open and scathing letter against YouTube ) deserves a strong response from musicians and other creators. MORE
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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 MORE
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
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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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. MORE
“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. Enter Le Tatou, who are significant YouTube stars in French. Their Article 13 explainer demonstrates how YouTube has tried to manipulate YouTubers and deceive the public. MORE
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. Uncategorized YouTube Kids Scam YouTube Meltdown Child Abuse Susan Wojcicki MORE
Here’s what Tunecore said: “You cannot submit tracks to YouTube for revenue collection that. by Youtube.”. Audiam’s reply was not correct, however: YouTube does indeed allow artists to monetize tracks that include the type of non-exclusive legitimate samples I mention here, but content owners need to sign up with Content ID directly, as opposed to using a middle man, and most indies can’t do that so we’re back to square one.]. MORE
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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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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. And it’s not like YouTube doesn’t know these videos are there–here’s one that is “age-restricted” Someone had to make that decision–someone at YouTube. creepy youtube YouTube Kids Scam YouTube Meltdown Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act Rep. MORE
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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.). MORE
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. Yes, the dynamic and oh so very soulful Christophe Mueller, the latest in a long line of YouTube executives from Central Casting, tells us that music videos have next to nothing to do with this : No, Mr. Christophe gives out numbers that work out to 2.5% MORE
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid it down today in his speech to a joint meeting of Congress: “ISIS is armed with butcher knives, captured weapons and YouTube…” This will come as no surprise to MTP readers as we have been hammering this issue for a long, long time. And of course YouTube has gotten away with it so far, just like Google has with so many of its bad acts. Ads before isis video on YouTube? MORE
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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
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. If I say so myself, it was a wonderful panel with some deep expertise (“ Stop Complaining and Start Monetizing “). There was a real interest in the audience about the mechanics of the rights involved and the revenues paid. MORE
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
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This week I heard an ad for a new program on SiriusXM called "Youtube 15" which features the top 15 trending songs on Youtube and it made me think of the multiple layers of streaming at play here. Obviously, the artists of the top 15 will make much more money from their Youtube views than a weekly spin on the Youtube 15 program. SiriusXM represents the largest paid subscriber pool and Youtube represents the largest viewership. I am big fan of SiriusXM. 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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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 One also can’t help noticing that the European Commission is currently prosecuting Google for antitrust violations in search, investigating Android and has a complaint against YouTube pending from IMPALA (the European indie label association). What About YouTube? MORE
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
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. And it’s not like YouTube doesn’t know these videos are there–here’s one that is “age-restricted” Someone had to make that decision–someone at YouTube. creepy youtube YouTube Kids Scam YouTube Meltdown Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act Rep.
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MARCH 26, 2018
A judge holds that YouTube isn't a "public forum" run by a "state actor." Business Politics Tech Business THR Online Google YouTube Politicsread more. THR, Esq.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2020
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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FEBRUARY 6, 2019
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AUGUST 14, 2019
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.
Music Technology Policy
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.).
Music Technology Policy
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.
Music Technology Policy
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.
Music Technology Policy
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.
Music Technology Policy
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. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall… But seriously, like any large organization, Google has competing bureaucracies and therefore its wholly-owned subsidiary YouTube does as well. ( Google is now the largest media company in the world.) Why it is that YouTube has such little clout internally is anyone’s guess.
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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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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
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.
Music Technology Policy
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.]. After all, it’s not fair to legal whorehouses that pay their share of taxes to lump them with meth labs and YouTube. Google and YouTube facilitate the theft of billions of dollars in stolen intellectual property.
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.
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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
Music Technology Policy
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.
Music Technology Policy
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. If I say so myself, it was a wonderful panel with some deep expertise (“ Stop Complaining and Start Monetizing “). There was a real interest in the audience about the mechanics of the rights involved and the revenues paid.
Music Technology Policy
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. Enter Le Tatou, who are significant YouTube stars in French. Their Article 13 explainer demonstrates how YouTube has tried to manipulate YouTubers and deceive the public.
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 29, 2019
According to Wired (“ Don’t believe the hype: Article 13 is great news for YouTube “), YouTube is positioned to be a big winner due to the Article 13 requirement for “upload filters” If you’re keeping your brackets for “Most Googlely Journalist” in the post-Article 13 March Madness spin, Wired gets the three point play on this post–there are no upload filters in Article 13, so not quite sure what Wired is getting at here.
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. That’s the most likely meaning of “dispute process” in the little YouTube picture below. If the lawsuit isn’t filed, then YouTube releases the money. So YouTube will continue to monetize infringing content–stop right there.
Music Technology Policy
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. None of this should came as a surprise–YouTube has a long history of failing to protect children from a host of unsavory activities on YouTube.
Music Technology Policy
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. Yes, the dynamic and oh so very soulful Christophe Mueller, the latest in a long line of YouTube executives from Central Casting, tells us that music videos have next to nothing to do with this : No, Mr. Christophe gives out numbers that work out to 2.5%
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
MAY 16, 2013
YouTube Tech Business The plaintiffs sued in 2007 over alleged infringements on the video-sharing site. read more. The Business THR, Esq.
Music Technology Policy
MARCH 3, 2015
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid it down today in his speech to a joint meeting of Congress: “ISIS is armed with butcher knives, captured weapons and YouTube…” This will come as no surprise to MTP readers as we have been hammering this issue for a long, long time. And of course YouTube has gotten away with it so far, just like Google has with so many of its bad acts. Ads before isis video on YouTube?
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. Hank Green’s recent open letter in support of YouTube (that was in response to Irving Azoff’s open and scathing letter against YouTube ) deserves a strong response from musicians and other creators.
Music Technology Policy
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
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 One also can’t help noticing that the European Commission is currently prosecuting Google for antitrust violations in search, investigating Android and has a complaint against YouTube pending from IMPALA (the European indie label association). What About YouTube?
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.
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.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
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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MARCH 18, 2010
Tags: Copyright IP/Tech Litigation YouTube
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
MARCH 18, 2014
Television YouTube Google Tech Viacom Business The resolution ends a nearly seven-year-old case that was closely followed in both the entertainment and tech sectors. read more. The Business THR Online THR, Esq.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
JULY 30, 2013
Television YouTube Tech Viacom Business An appeals court is primed to review the long-running dispute a second time. read more. The Business THR, Esq.
Music Technology Policy
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. Uncategorized YouTube Kids Scam YouTube Meltdown Child Abuse Susan Wojcicki
Current Trends
DECEMBER 16, 2013
Gamers beware – YouTube will take you down for “Let’s Play” videos. A flurry of activity occurred in early December as YouTube users posting “Let’s Play” videos, which generally feature recorded gameplay with running commentary by the user, were hit with Content ID takedown claims resulting in thousands of blocked videos. What’s more interesting is YouTube activated this round of Content ID matches without the support of the game developers.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
MAY 27, 2010
In the wake of three Hollywood studios standing behind Viacom in its $1 billion copyright fight with Google's YouTube, four new media powerhouses have now joined Team YouTube. EBay, Facebook, Tags: Copyright Litigation YouTube By Matthew Belloni So the battle lines are being drawn.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
JUNE 17, 2009
The tactic has been irksome to many who have uploaded content onto YouTube only to see it taken. Tags: Copyright Litigation YouTube By Eriq Gardner We've written about the legal strategy dismissively known as "Send takedown request first, ask questions about the merits later."
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
The Digital Lowdown
JULY 1, 2014
This week I heard an ad for a new program on SiriusXM called "Youtube 15" which features the top 15 trending songs on Youtube and it made me think of the multiple layers of streaming at play here. Obviously, the artists of the top 15 will make much more money from their Youtube views than a weekly spin on the Youtube 15 program. SiriusXM represents the largest paid subscriber pool and Youtube represents the largest viewership. I am big fan of SiriusXM.
Music Technology Policy
JUNE 21, 2016
Here’s what Tunecore said: “You cannot submit tracks to YouTube for revenue collection that. by Youtube.”. Audiam’s reply was not correct, however: YouTube does indeed allow artists to monetize tracks that include the type of non-exclusive legitimate samples I mention here, but content owners need to sign up with Content ID directly, as opposed to using a middle man, and most indies can’t do that so we’re back to square one.].
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2011
The Business Tech Business Viacom YouTubeEriq Gardner Former solicitor general Ted Olson doesn't attend a key appeal court hearing after Viacom chooses Paul Smith to handle oral arguments. read more. THR, Esq.
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