PRS for Music

PRS Deal Brings Music Videos Back to YouTube in U.K.

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 3, 2009 - 7:27am.

London - U.K. royalty collection society PRS for Music announced on Thursday that it has reached a new licensing agreement with Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube, which will return music videos to the site in the U.K. Videos had largely been absent on YouTube in the U.K. since March, when PRS pulled them after unsuccessful licensing renegotiations.

U.K. Royalty Body PRS for Music Cuts Music Streaming Rates

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 26, 2009 - 9:40am.

London - U.K. royalty collection society PRS for Music announced on Tuesday that it will cut by more than half the rate that websites must pay to stream music online, from $0.0035 to $0.00135 per track.

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Report: Top Songs at Retail Also Most Popular on P2P

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 14, 2009 - 12:32pm.

London - In a study that purports to disprove Wired editor Chris Anderson's "Long Tail" theory of retail, U.K. industry body PRS for Music and file-sharing tracker BigChampagne found that the most-popular songs at retail were also the most popular tracks being downloaded from file-sharing networks.

Featured Artists Coalition Opposes Criminalizing File-Sharing

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 13, 2009 - 10:15am.

London - The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a group of U.K. artists including Billy Bragg and Radiohead that aims to give voice to musicians in industry issues, held its first meeting this week in London, and voted to oppose any laws that would criminalize music file-swapping. "If we follow the music industry down that road, we will be doing nothing more than being part of a protectionist effort. It's like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube," FAC board member Billy Bragg told the Independent.

U.K. Artists Enter Fray in Dispute Over YouTube Music Videos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 11, 2009 - 10:25am.

London - The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a group of musicians aiming to garner more of a say in industry contracts that includes Billy Bragg, Robbie Williams, KT Tunstall and Radiohead, has come out against Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube in a dispute over licensing fees paid for music videos that recently saw YouTube pull most music videos from its U.K. site, the Times Online reported.

Music Videos Pulled From YouTube UK Over License Terms

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 9, 2009 - 10:55am.

London - After failing to agree on terms to renew a licensing agreement with the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS) in the U.K., Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube has blocked thousands of music videos from its U.K. site, the company said in a blog post. "PRS is now asking us to pay many, many times more for our licence than before. The costs are simply prohibitive for us -- under PRS's proposed terms we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback," wrote Patrick Walker, YouTube's director of video partnerships for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.