Someone releases the new YouTube Indie Music contract.
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[url]http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/23/fk-heres-entire-youtube-contract-indies[/url]
This contract is basically handing your rights all over to Google/YouTube.
YouTube owns everything you've ever created and has the right to stream it on its free service – online AND off-line.
YouTube users can stream your entire catalog for free the day it is released in iTunes.
[quote]“Catalogue Commitment and Monetization. It is understood that as of the Effective Date and throughout the Term, Provider’s entire catalogue of Provider Sound Recordings and Provider Music Videos (including Provider Music Videos delivered via a third party) will be available for the Premium and Free Services for use in connection with each type of Relevant Content, (excluding AudioSwap Recordings, which will be at Provider’s option) and set to a default policy of Monetize for both the Premium and Free Services, except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement. Further, Provider will provide Google with the same Provider Sound Recordings and Provider Music Videos on the same day as it provides such content to any other similarly situated partners. The foregoing will be subject to reasonable quantity of limited-time exclusive promotional offers (in each case, with a single third party partner) (“Limited Exclusives”), as long as a) Provider provides Google with comparable exclusive promotional offers and b) the quantity and duration of such Limited Exclusives do not frustrate the intent of this Agreement.”[/quote]
There's lots of other bullshit things such as them being able to lower your rates on a whim.
Now they have indeed become JewTube in truth.
This contract is so bad, that some clauses simply aren't even legal in the EU.
man, this is fucked.
[QUOTE=usa;45203806]This contract is so bad, that some clauses simply aren't even legal in the EU.[/QUOTE]
Then they won't be upheld in court, Google's new draconian contract won't circumvent already established laws.
Are we really going to trust this? There's no source and all the rest of the articles on this website are clickbait like "12 Things You Should Never Say To A Musician" or "10 Things You Should Never Say On Stage"
[editline]24th June 2014[/editline]
Here's a better source, with some important parts:
[quote]One important caveat to consider is that this is just a contract sent to indie labels: it indicates the terms that YouTube wanted them to sign up to, but it is not a reflection of the actual deals signed.[/quote]
[quote]To put it another way: until a smoking-gun email or more first-hand testimony from labels about exactly what they were told by YouTube is published, the arguments over whether the company is bullying labels or not will continue to rage.[/quote]
[URL]http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/24/youtube-music-contract-indie-labels[/URL]
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45203803]Now they have indeed become JewTube in truth.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXiOwt31cfU[/media]
(In this context I harbor no real negative feelings towards Jewish religion nor ethnicity and I am posting the video purely in sake of sarcastic humor and sheer absurdity of it)
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