YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK 161
ChunKing writes "YouTube is to block all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Rights Society. For many of us in the UK this is great news. The two main music licensing agencies in the UK — Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS — have a stranglehold on music use in this country and are stifling creativity."
Re:"Great news?" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Every cloud.... (Score:1, Informative)
They said "Premium".
UK music fans lose again... (Score:4, Informative)
Services such as Pandora.com, MySpace UK and Imeem have also had issues securing licence deals in the UK in the past 12 months.
The Pandora fiasco is particularly annoying for UK music fans. I was poised to become a subscriber and pay a very reasonable fee to listen to music tailored for my tastes. Instead Pandora were forced to pull the plug in the UK, so everybody loses. Pandora lose subscription funds and advertising, the artists lose income from potential UK subscribers and Pandora adverts, and the listeners lose out on the chance to hear great music.
Actually, the PRS don't seem to be losing out. How strange.
Re:New 404 message: (Score:3, Informative)
It looks to me like the PRS needs Google more than Google needs them. Hopefully Google will refuse to show any more of their dross until they can come back with some reasonable and sensible licensing terms for all their music.
The most ridiculous part is that the PRS apparently can't even tell Google which artists would be covered by their licence. If they don't know who they're representing then how are the artists ever going to get any money from them ? Totally ridiculous !
Re:If not in youtube then in some other site... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Their own fault (Score:3, Informative)
Is it just me or were Music Videos given away free as adverts for the product at one time... when did they become the product?
Not just Youtube (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Their own fault (Score:4, Informative)