Seán Bulger
Youtube and the Performing Rights Society in the UK have come into disagreement over licensing issues for premium music video content hosted on the streaming video giant. This disagreement has led to disappointed not just for the two companies who have yet to be able to strike a deal between each other, but also for the citizens of the UK who will be unable to access this content. While the PRS commented that they were “shocked and disappointed” over the disagreement, Google stated that they were unwilling to partake in a business model that involved them losing money for every time the video is played – certainly a case that will sound familiar to many on the good old ‘net.
Thismight well be another case of the Internet being a tricky little devil for media organizations to cope with. The issue seems to come down to Google being unwilling to pay as much as they currently do for this added content, which thePRS has found to be a poor excuse – more so, which they added, when Google will get more views on YouTube than they would without the content. Of course, it would appear that Google finds that lacking the content, at least for now, is better business sense than paying the royalties. It is certainly hard to say who is in the right for this, but I have to admit, I’ve become rather skeptical of music publishing companies.
One way or the other, hopefully the two will sort something out so that people can just access the lousy content that they want.
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