Indie Music Labels Upset With YouTube
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Independent music labels in the United States and Britain, upset with YouTube over how content is used on the site, are threatening legal action. The labels are upset with terms the social networking service proposed for the use of copyright-protected work, Billboard said Tuesday.
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Music videos from artists like  Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sean Paul will be legally  available for the first time on YouTube, a popular online video  sharing site, after signing its first commercial partnership  with Warner Music Group .
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A Japanese entertainment group is not happy with YouTube's progress in weeding out copyrighted content, and is asking the social video site to implement stricter policies on video uploads.
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Bloomberg is running an article which quotes Google CEO Eric Schmidt&#8217;s stance on media companies and their reluctance to upload content on YouTube, despite its popularity and demand by YouTube users to view copyrighted content. &#8220;Eventually all of the copyrighted content will be available on virtually all of the sites,'&#8217; said Schmidt, who is tussling over [...]
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The media industry is clashing with  YouTube over its proposal to offer anti-piracy tools only to  companies that have distribution deals with the top online  video-sharing service, media insiders said.
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Microsoft's efforts to loosen up access to closely held music owned by record labels has an unintended consequence: It punishes artists who want to share. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Online video has changed the way  Latin music labels discover and market their artists -- but  entertainment companies are hoping that YouTube Mexico's  emphasis on local content will translate the medium into a  significant revenue stream.
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The symbiotic relationship between the major record labels and online music companies is as testy as ever at a digital music conference. Eliot Van Buskirk reports from New York.
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Music DVDs have become a hit among fans, but musicians have mixed emotions about the video format being used to document their performances.
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US recording label Warner Music said it was in talks with the phenomenally popular Internet site YouTube to post its artists' song videos online.
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Viewpoint: Record labels don't trust us with their music. But they need to retune that thinking, says Lev Grossman
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Universal Music seeks millions from Veoh, an online video-sharing site backed by Time Warner, alleging the site is ripping off Universal and its artists. Veoh counters that it removes copyright content when notified and complies with federal law.
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'Worse than P2P' The Recording Industry Ass. of America has now attacked a company that provides access to internet newsgroups.â¦
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Royalties, please The chief of the world's biggest record label, Universal Music Group, has hinted that the company will sue the video sharing site YouTube for copyright infringement.â¦
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Center for Democracy and Technology notes that some Web sites claim to offer legal music, but don't have the necessary licensing agreements.
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Viacom, the parent company of MTV, is suing Google for $1 Billion in damages brought about via alleged copyright violations as Viacom claims that its material was illegally uploaded and distrubted via Google &#038; YouTube. Viacom made a statement today saying that YouTube has &#8220;built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to [...]
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A lawsuit filed by entertainment giant Viacom Inc. , seeking more than $1 billion in damages against video-sharing website YouTube and its parent company Google Inc., raises the volume on one of the hottest debates in the technology business: Can Internet sites post snippets of content produced by others without paying them?