YouTube Music Content Takedown Continued

pregnantfridge writes "In the ongoing conflict between PRS for Music and YouTube over the takedown of all music related content in the UK, PRS for Music have created a new site, fairplayforcreators.com, exposing the views of the music writers impacted by the YouTube decision. I am not certain if these views have been editorially compromised, but by reading a few pages, it's clear to me that Music writers represented by PRS for Music are largely clueless about what the Internet and YouTube means to the music industry. Kind of explains why the music industry is in such a decline — and also why so much litigation takes place on the music writers' behalf."

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Re:question to poster

[Andy_R]

You'd be right if that was the way the conversation went, but PRS!=Authors... it's actually more like this:

Google: We know there's an industry wide flat rate of X for this sort of licencing, and we know we agreed to pay it, but since the public hate the RIAA and can't tell the difference between the PRS and the RIAA, we think you'll fold if we offer you less than X
PRS: Sorry, but if we cut our rate to you, we'd have to cut our rate to everyone else in order to be fair.
Google: We don't make X on ad revenue though
PRS: How is that our fault?
Google: err...
Authors: Hey, we don't really like the PRS either, but because we don't want to enter into individual negotiations with every drunkard who wants to sing kareoke, so we put up with a flat-rate system, because it's the only workable solution.
PRS and Google: Who asked you to be in this conversation?