YouTube loses court battle over music clips

[michael21]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17785613

i think the UK will be OK for now

[Mystic Mock]

How ridiculous, what if the song doesn't get played much on the Music channels or the radio?

[Scarlett.]

It's only Germany

[Mystic Mock]

It's only Germany

It means it will come over here within the next 5 years, and even if it's only in Germany it doesn't make it ok for them to have that happen to them imo.

[Scarlett.]

We had the whole music video incident a few years back, remember? They eventually came to an agreement and Vevo came onto the site

[Mystic Mock]

We had the whole music video incident a few years back, remember? They eventually came to an agreement and Vevo came onto the site

I actually don't remember that as i've only been interested in YouTube as i've got older.

[Z]

GEMA is so infuriating, I reckon over 90% of popular music from the UK in the last 20 years in unavailable on YouTube because GEMA has withheld the rights to it. Literally, if you want to see a music video you've got no chance, the closest you'll get to hearing anything familiar is a version with the pitch raised slightly. I don't understand how they don't have the rights to show videos because so many of the songs I try to look up have definitely been released in Germany and/or have been shown on the music channels here. It's madness. This is a sad day.

[Marc]

Is that from the perspective of being in Germany, Greg?

[Z]

Yeah Marc :laugh: