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Bummer.
Oct 6, 2017 6:03:53 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by jcoutu1 on Oct 6, 2017 6:03:53 GMT -6
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Post by swurveman on Oct 6, 2017 7:30:12 GMT -6
The question I have is: What solutions are songwriter advocates proposing? Youtube and Pandora are making advertising revenue off the backs of freely distributed songs written by songwriters. I would think a system that targets a percentage of advertising revenues going back to the songwriters is one solution. Why is this not happening? What other solutions that reward the advertising profit obtained by Youtube and Pandora on the backs of these songwriters are there? According to this article, Youtube earned $9 billion in advertising revenue in 2015. Seems like Germany's performance rights organization - GEMA- has already acted. How can a Germany PRO have the clout to block illegal content and then sue to get renumerated, while American PRO's do nothing? Here's what GEMA did for their artists when Youtube allowed content they shouldn't have.  #/media/File:YouTube_blocked_Germany_GEMA_de.png)  |
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Post by EmRR on Oct 6, 2017 8:12:07 GMT -6
Amazing, requires action. If music was organized as film is, it'd have already happened.
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Post by swurveman on Oct 6, 2017 8:43:15 GMT -6
Amazing, requires action. If music was organized as film is, it'd have already happened. Yep, you don't see new release films on Youtube, though I bet Google is lobbying right now to get it's grubby mitts on film as well. Google spent $16,830,000 lobbying Washington in 2014. ASCAP spent $870,000. Germany has a more egalitarian government than America. So, I don't expect anything to be done. |
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Post by johneppstein on Oct 6, 2017 12:57:25 GMT -6
The question I have is: What solutions are songwriter advocates proposing? Youtube and Pandora are making advertising revenue off the backs of freely distributed songs written by songwriters. I would think a system that targets a percentage of advertising revenues going back to the songwriters is one solution. Why is this not happening? What other solutions that reward the advertising profit obtained by Youtube and Pandora on the backs of these songwriters are there? According to this article, Youtube earned $9 billion in advertising revenue in 2015. Seems like Germany's performance rights organization - GEMA- has already acted. How can a Germany PRO have the clout to block illegal content and then sue to get renumerated, while American PRO's do nothing? Here's what GEMA did for their artists when Youtube allowed content they shouldn't have. Video blocked in the US. How surprising! |
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Post by iamasound on Oct 9, 2017 6:14:59 GMT -6
From the article...
Unlike in the United States, where copyright law protects sites like YouTube that host copyrighted material posted by users, in Germany they are considered to be digital forms of traditional companies and, as such, are equally beholden to laws that exist for publishers or music providers.
Hmmm
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