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02 Apr 09

YouTube shuts out German users in dispute over fees - Feature : Internet Technology

  • It was hitting back against a demand from Gema, a German public agency that collects a performing-right fees, for 1 euro cent per video download. Gema, which has annual turnover of 850 million euros (1.13 billion dollars) represents writers and music publishers
  • A YouTube executive, Patrick Walker, said Gema's 1-cent demand was out of proportion to what the German agency charged compact disc vendors, given that users often watched videos many times over.
30 Mar 09

Google China Signs Big Music For Free MP3 Search Engine

  • The site offers over a million music tracks thanks to a partnership with Top100.cn (a company co-founded by basketball start Yao Ming which Google has invested in), most of them Chinese but also foreign tunes approved by the government. For example, users can download the latest Metallica album free of charge, of which you can see a screenshot below. Apart from the four labels mentioned above, several major publishers and 140+ indie labels are said to be on board.
  • Google is making this move to gain more ground on Baidu, the leading search engine in China, which has been offering free MP3s for years, part of the reason why it became the leader in the first place (it has roughly double the market share in search than Google). A Baidu representative has already responded to the launch of the new MP3 search engine, saying Google is entering the game too late and that this particular ship has long sailed.
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