Finally, YouTube is legal with EMI
It took awhile, but now YouTube and EMI are official partners
“With this deal, all four of the world’s major music companies are now official YouTube partners,” said Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-founder of YouTube. “EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world’s largest and most respected music companies. We’re excited to add EMI Music’s stellar roster of artists’ content to our site and make it available to our community.”
Is that the only real excitement here? No. It means that YouTube will live another day with this nice deal.
EMI Music has agreed to work with YouTube and Google to develop business models in which the YouTube community will be able to access user generated content featuring EMI-owned and copyrighted audio and video works. EMI Music will use YouTube’s industry-leading content management tools which feature a content identification and reporting system that will help EMI track and monetize its content and compensate its artists. YouTube’s content management tools also give EMI Music the ability to request the removal of EMI’s copyrighted content from YouTube.
My guess is if you use EMI content and make a spoof video of anyone at YouTube, Google, or EMI, they can remove it? That is a bit unclear, but it’s better then what YouTube had going for it before.
Its record labels include…. The Beatles, ….
Yes, their roster does include The Beatles. So when are we going to finally have them online?
Technically Speaking, this is a good day for YouTube.
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