YouTube closures

tamborine | 23:58 Fri 13th Mar 2009 | ChatterBank

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anyone noticed a lot of Youtubes top songs with videos have been withdrawn.

ok ....any witty banter before i go to bed?

Rciky Gervais - yea or nay?

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Rollo

They announced they were doing this a couple of days ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/new sid_7933000/7933659.stm

Rollo

And

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565. stm

mandimoo

its due to a row over how much royalties should be paid each time they are viewed, so i heard on radio 1 news the other day

mandimoo

i dunno.... you wait ages for an answer, and then 3 come along all at once

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tamborine

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PRS at root cause.....where can we see their Accounts? Have yet to hear of ONE musician who has benefitted from PRS.

londongirl

Tambourine...every single songwriter who has had their music played benefits from the PRS. Thats the whole point. I have songwriting friends who rely a great deal on royalties

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