YouTube renews music video contract
>> Wednesday, June 15, 2011
YouTube, the hugely popular online video site, has renewed a global
licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment which allows it to
continue showing music videos of artists like Beyonce and Avril
Lavrigne, people familiar with the talks said on Thursday.
The deal with Sony, the world's second largest music company, is
important in light of a decision by Warner Music Group to walk away
from similar contract renewal talks with YouTube last December in a
dispute over licensing fees.
Warner asked YouTube to take its music videos down.
A person familiar with Sony Music's plans said the company still sees
great value in YouTube's huge numbers of users both to Sony's artists
and to the artists' fans.
YouTube, which is owned by search giant Google, had more than 100
million users in December, according to data from comScore, a Web
audience measurement service.
YouTube's music video licenses with Vivendi's Universal Music Group,
the world's largest music company, and privately held EMI Music are
still running. But renewal talks with the two companies are coming up
soon, another person close to the talks said.
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