Google’s YouTube Extorts Artists And Pockets The Profits, Says MusicFIRST Coalition
- Ted Kalo
- 25 mars 2016
- 1 min de lecture
Although its shell company Alphabet is raking in massive amounts of revenue, and YouTube is the most popular music service in world, Ted Kalo of the musicFIRST Coalition looks at how he says Google has been able to exploit legal loopholes to avoid paying creatorsthe money they deserve.
About $21,329,000,000 in revenue during Q4 and 558,000,000 copyright takedown requests in 2015.
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Its free YouTube video streaming service, with more than one billion users, is the most popular platform for music consumption in the world.[ii] Though Google does not disclose sales numbers for YouTube specifically, it ascribes its substantial growth in part to advertising dollars on YouTube: ...
What’s that you say? “There ought to be a law to prevent all of this.”
Well, there is — but Google and its lawyers have figured out how to exploit the outdated and obsolete “Digital Millennium Copyright Act” that was intended to stop abuse of creative works.
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