YouTube Faces Opposition from German Music Royalties Collection Agency
YouTube viewers in Germany will have to wait for access to certain songs. GEMA, a large music royalties collection agency, has decided to suspend negotiations over its contract with YouTube after more than three years of arguments over copyright liability, the company announced yesterday.
YouTube viewers in Germany will have to wait for access to certain songs. GEMA, a large music royalties collection agency, has decided to suspend negotiations over its contract with YouTube after more than three years of arguments over copyright liability, the company announced yesterday.
GEMA represents 65,000 composers, lyricists, and music publishers in Germany and more than two million copyright holders around the world.
The agency had asked to increase its royalties per streamed video after its original contract with YouTube expired in March 2009.
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