YouTube Signs Music Royalty Deal for UK
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YouTube said Thursday that it had agreed with the MCPS-PRS Alliance, the UK organization that distributes royalties to the record industry, on a system to compensate artists for music using on the UK version of the site.
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LONDON -- Artists from Cliff Richard to Amy Winehouse will be paid when their tracks are used as backing music for clips on video-sharing Web site YouTube following a deal with the British society that collects royalties for composers, songwriters and publishers.
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Songwriters strike YouTube royalty deal The first deal of its kind to compensate songwriters for music played on YouTube should benefit them all, the parties said today.â¦
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YouTube, the popular online video  sharing service, is teaming up with major marketing and media  partners for a competition to discover the most talented  unsigned bands on its site.
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Viacom Inc.., engaged in a public copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa.
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A YouTube deal with the British society that collects royalties for composers, songwriters and publishers means artists will be paid for tracks used to back clips on the video-sharing website. The agreement will also give YouTube a defense when media companies holler "piracy."
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YouTube is set to replace BBC.com as most visited general entertainment site for UK Web surfers.
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TWO YouTube founders scooped shares worth a total of $650 million (Pounds 330 million) following Google's acquisition of the video sharing site for $1.65 billion late last year.
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Viacom wants cash Some of the world's biggest media companies have announced a copyright protection pact with a group of video-happy net businesses that doesn't include Google and YouTube.â¦
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Last week saw a significant development in the online video distribution industry, as search giant Google acquired online video sharing site YouTube in a share swap valued by analysts at over $1.6bn.
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(InfoWorld) - The co-founder of a Web site that offers free streamed music from top artists said he's determined to operate his service legally despite menacing overtures from Universal Music Group. The Web site, Deezer.com, based in France, has been signing up users at a fast pace thanks to its user-friendly interface and streamed music from thousands of artists, including Maroon 5, Rihanna, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. The site offers about 200,000 songs and has signed up 300,000 registered users in the past few months, co-founder Jonathan Benassaya said on Monday. Most of the users are in France, he said, although the site is available in 16 languages. The record labels have been less enthusiastic. Universal Music, a division of Vivendi Universal, said on Friday that Deezer.com's use of its music was illegal and that it would take "all measures necessary" to get its music removed from the Web site, according to press reports. Benassaya insisted on Monday the service is legal, however -- or at least, that it will be soon. "We are not robbers," he said. "We want to pay for the rights to our music, but it takes time to put all the agreements in place." Deezer.com originally operated as Blogmusik.net but shut down in February under pressure from the music industry. It relaunched with its new name last week after it signed a deal with SACEM, a group that collects royalties for authors and songwriters in France. The recording industry told Deezer.com that the deal with SACEM was a necessary first step before it could sign deals with the major labels, according to Benassaya. His company is now in talks with the labels and is confident that it will sign deals with them soon to begin paying royalties, he said. Universal Music, EMI Group, and Warner Music did not return calls seeking comment on Monday, and Sony BMG could not immediately be reached. Asked if Deezer.com should have waited until the agreements were in place to launch the service, Benassaya countered that YouTube launched its service before it signed deals with content owners to distribute their video. He also said that Deezer.com has been operating since April and that only now has Universal raised its objection. While Deezer.com is supposed to let people stream music only, some users have figured out a way to download songs to their computers, something that's only likely to further irritate the music labels. "It appears there are some leaks in the Web site security and we have been working on that since Friday," Benassaya said. "This week by Tuesday or Wednesday, we will put in place new security so you cannot download music." Deezer's problems arose when it got caught in the crossfire of competition between two French ISPs, Free and Neuf Cegetel, according to Benassaya. Neuf announced a deal with Universal Music last Monday to launch a music download service for its customers. Deezer.com was launched two days later, and Free has been promoting Deezer.com as an alternative to its own customers.
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Google's video-sharing site launches country-specific YouTube sites.
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Viacom Inc., engaged in a public copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa.
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The BBC has signed a major  deal with Google to launch three branded channels on YouTube.
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Over the air delivery of sound and vision 3 UK has added 1000 music videos to its online shop, which is powered by Groove Mobile, enabling customers to download videos from the four big labels onto their phone, and PC, for Â£1.49 each.â¦
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Google Inc.'s YouTube signed a deal  with Digital Music Group Inc. to post more than 4,000 hours of  video content such as classic television shows to the  video-sharing site, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Although it is not confirmed, Google has entered into a joint venture with Top100.cn, which will allow Internet users to download licensed music for free.