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YouTube could pay more to artists under copyright law shake-up
Google noted that it already has technology in place that can detect copyrighted content uploaded to Youtube, but that making such detection mandatory would be impractical.
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YouTube creates revenue by selling advertising on its content pages, and music industry representatives in the United Kingdom have said they are not getting a fair share of the profits made from the videos posted.
President Juncker said in his address: “I want journalists, publishers and authors to be paid fairly for their work, whether it is made in studios or living rooms, whether it is disseminated offline or online, whether it is published via a copying machine or commercially hyperlinked on the web”.
However, the EC digital single market plans – which are the result of two years of public consultation – were roundly criticised by internet rights campaign group OpenMedia.
“But more needs to be done so we will continue working with both the Council and the European Parliament in order to strengthen the rights of authors, composers, music publishers and other players in the creative value chain”. This goes against the EU’s existing eCommerce directive, under which platforms are not obliged proactively to monitor what users upload, but only act when notified of an infringement, the company said. It has been lobbying for Brussels to step up its pressure on online music and video providers.
That view was echoed by Robert Ashcroft, chief executive of United Kingdom collecting society PRS for Music, who welcomed the EC’s attempt “to redress the current imbalance of interests between user upload platforms and rights holders”. “But this potential will only be realised if the European Union and UK Government fix the fault-line that lies at the very heart of the digital music market”.
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Under the directive, portals such as Google News would be forced to pay newspaper publishers a fee when using small extracts or snippets of news stories.