Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Artists campaign for change online copyright – NU.nl

According to the American handelsorganisatie of muziekindustrie RIAA is the current Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 very detrimental to artists.

The performers have their name given to an ad that claimed Billboard Tuesday to Thursday appears in a number of political magazines that open in Washington. The major labels support the action that especially impact must have the position of YouTube.

Have Its current law “big tech companies can grow and make a lot of profit by making it easy for users almost any song ever recorded in contributing their pocket via a smartphone, while incomes continue to fall from songwriters and artists, “as it says in the ad.

Negotiations

Now users of YouTube safely copyright infringement as long as they remove content only when it is required. This gives the online video service according to the labels an advantage in the negotiations for the contracts with the most tags.

Currently, many of which expired contracts and running the negotiations for new agreements, which the amendment for the labels and artists making a matter of urgency.

YouTube say they have little benefit from the law because labels can have their music used to remove through an automated system or to bring this money into account. The department says so too have paid $ 3 billion (2.65 billion euros) to the music industry

By:. Buzze

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