German copyright enforcers want Youtube to pay to stream videos of the meteor in Russia last week because there is ambient music play for a car radio. I understand wanting to get paid for your work but this is absurd. Musicians are not going to lose sales because people can hear a song on these videos.
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Here's Germany's latest attempt to turn the Internet into a (slightly) advanced form of cable television. I'm glad to see that Google is having none if it.
Germans can’t see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute
German rights group wants $0.005 per stream and Google says nein.
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