Gema verliert den Prozess gegen YouTube

[Bam]

Muss YouTube der Gema Geld für die Bereitstellung der Musikvideos zahlen, die Internetnutzer hochladen? Seit Jahren streiten die Videoplattform und der Rechteverwerter. Jetzt urteilte ein Gericht.

http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article143...w_facebook

[northwood]

I was struggling to understand the Google translate version of some of the German news on this subject, and found this English version on Reuters....


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/3...EK20150630


It is an interesting argument, not sure I understand the feeling here at the Music-Society....  are any of you represented by GEMA?

[Bam]

I make GEMA-free music

[northwood]

I must admit I find it hard to take one side of the other, as I am a member of SOCAN, and have some royalties from public performances of some of my material.  I don't agree with making the posters of the material responsible on YT, Google needs to police that themselves and remove if they feel it necessary.  There is great value to having your material seen on youtube, so its kind of crazy over all to punish fans who want to show their love for it.  My performing rights organization (SOCAN) is paid by Google for performances of such material.  This comes through ad revenue.  So artists and fans are happy here.