Neil Young Backs Warner's Removal, Muting of YouTube Videos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 3, 2009 - 11:57am.

San Francisco - Veteran rocker Neil Young has come out in favor of his label Reprise Records' (part of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG)) deleting his music videos from YouTube (NASD: GOOG) or muting the sound on other videos, Wired.com reported.

"YouTube has a responsibility to respect the artists it facilitates and resist punishing them to make a business point," Young wrote on his website.

"It is time for industry-wide standards of artist compensation on the web."

Young notes that Warner was an early YouTube partner, and should be getting more money from the site for the use of its artists' music.

"YouTube was in its fledgling stages when Warner made an early deal to work with them," Young added. "Today, other labels have made more lucrative deals for their artists at YouTube."

For its part, YouTube spokesman Chris Dale responded through Wired.com that "It is the record labels' responsibility to represent and pay their artists."

http://www.neilyoung.com/news/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UAqgNqLSSE

Published in DMW Daily, March 3, 2009

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No Mr. Young, There is No Santa Claus

Submitted by M. Zelenz (not verified) on March 3, 2009 - 12:30pm.

"YouTube has a responsibility to respect the artists it facilitates and resist punishing them to make a business point "It is time for industry-wide standards of artist compensation on the web." You putzes lost it when you had a chance to allow the consumer to empower themselves instead of letting the old system creak and groan along. You lost, deal with it by creating new, better content. Trying to live off your past glories is so over, so boomer, so hollywood.