YouTube's Battle of the Bands
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Seeking ways to turn popularity into sorely needed cash, the video site will stage an old-fashioned battle of the bands -- thanks to a hefty assist from Cingular Wireless.
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YouTube continues to  attract attention from the labels, managers and aspiring  artists.
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YouTube pulls videos posted by the Rational Response Squad after a Creationist group claims they violate DMCA copyright laws. When squad members complain, YouTube bans them.
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How very un-American Last week, it was Flickr. This week, itâs YouTube.â¦
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It takes only a few minutes to see why YouTube.com has rocketed to the top of the Internet -- hilarious amateur dance routines, a hypnotic juggler, a Hong Kong bus fight and the most incredible caterpillar you've ever seen crawling across a floor.
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LOS ANGELES -- Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, contends the wildly popular Web sites YouTube and MySpace are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists.
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Measuring time on page instead of hits is likely to hurt Google but help YouTube.
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A music retailer from the Netherlands beats Apple by launching a download service in Europe's latest market battleground. Also: Movie industry wrests agreement from defunct company.... Microsoft challenges Photoshop & hellip;. and more.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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Business & money: Â· Users can download tracks and vote for favourite act Â· Contest will be backed up by Channel 4 series
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False dawn, or new era for bandwidth benefactor? Warner Music Group (WMG) has broken ranks with its fellow music majors and is climbing into bed with YouTube. The record label will use the video hosting phenomenon to distribute music videos and extras such as interviews with bands, and documentaries. Also, YouTube users can tap WMGâs music catalogue for backing on videos they make and upload onto the service.â¦
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Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music.
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The question on many people&#8217;s minds since the recent PR warfare between Google/YouTube and Viacom (and NBC) is: will YouTube retain its dominance or will it be supplanted by another site? That&#8217;s the same question that circulates around Google itself of course.  Two thoughts: 1. The &#8220;Head&#8221;: Professionally produced content is critical to YouTube&#8217;s long-term strength  Lazy Sunday, [...]
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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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By Lorenzo Perez, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 17--YouTube's video-sharing Web site already lures millions of viewers with a broad spectrum of niche programming that includes everything from old Lionel Richie music videos to raunchy college dorm pranks.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - EMI  has joined  the other three major music companies in letting YouTube users  play with its music videos, allowing people to get clips by the  likes of David Bowie, Norah Jones and Coldplay from the  Google-owned site and edit them into their own videos.
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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¦