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YouTube Ordered to Pay ASCAP $1.6M in Streaming Royalties

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 20, 2009 - 10:45am.
New York - Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube has been ordered by a federal court to pay U.S. songwriters represented by ASCAP $1.61 million in royalties, as well as $70,000 per year going forward, for the music played on the video site, Techdirt reported.

 

ASCAP had petitioned for a payment of $12 million for the music streamed via YouTube from 2005 through 2008, while YouTube had suggested a payment of $79,500 for the same period.

YouTube has recently been embroiled in disputes with record labels and collection societies over royalties paid for music streaming, leading some groups -- including Warner Music (NYSE: WMG), the U.K.'s PRS for Music, and Germany's GEMA -- to remove their artists' repertoire from the site entirely.

 

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Published in DMW Daily, May 20, 2009
tags: Video | Law | Lawsuits | Music | Google | YouTube | Copyright | ASCAP |



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