YouTube Strikes Deal with GEMA After 7 Long Years

YouTube finally strikes a deal with GEMA, ending their seven-year standoff. To say that YouTube and GEMA have had a contentious relationship is a huge understatement. For the past seven years, German users did not have access to music content on Google’s top video website. All that changed today, however, as YouTube and GEMA have […]

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YouTube will pay up for past usages as part of landmark GEMA deal

Collection society confirms that it wasn’t seven years’ bad luck for German writersThe post YouTube will pay up for past usages as part of landmark GEMA deal appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

German Court Finds Uploaded.net Liable For Hosting Pirated Content

Whose fault is it when a user of a popular cloud storage website uploads an illegal copy of a copyrighted work and continues to do so? According to a German court, the actual website is at fault. In a case that could prove to have far-reaching implications, popular German IT tech site Golem.de reported that […]

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