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YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK

Posted by timothy on from the music-videos-in-the-uk dept.

ChunKing writes "YouTube is to block all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Rights Society. For many of us in the UK this is great news. The two main music licensing agencies in the UK — Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS — have a stranglehold on music use in this country and are stifling creativity."

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  1. Huh wot ? by gx5000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Great news ?
    Orwell's shifted so many times in his grave as to come back up to the surface by now.
    No I mean really, between the lack of privacy laws and such, how long until the people of
    Britain rise up ?

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