Inventado um piano para o Youtube (vê aqui)

Podes tocar nas 17 teclas do novo vídeo interactivo. Continuar...

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Muziic: aplicação de música gratuita chega ao Facebook

Muziic é a nova aplicação do Facebook que permite aceder a um catálogo extenso de música sem restrinções via YouTube. Continuar...

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YouTube Steadfast In Music Video Negotiations With PRS For Music

Patrick Walker, the Head of Video Partnerships at YouTube, outlined the site’s efforts in making progress towards deals with artists and royalty collecting groups at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton. Youtube blocked all premium music videos in the UK, after a failed deal with PRS for Music in March. Walker told the BCC that everything is “great” with the major labels. As for PRS, he said:

“We’re working very hard to come to an arrangement with PRS and we won’t strike a deal unless it makes economic sense. They’ve been a good partner in the negotiations and we’re trying to come up with something that makes sense for everyone involved. Ultimately no-one wins if the videos stay off the service, so we’re trying to come up with a win-win scenario.”

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PRS for Music Deals With Spotify, Bashes YouTube

PRS for Music, a collecting society for UK songwriters, composers and music publishers, confirmed yesterday that it agreed “commercial terms” with music streaming service Spotify. PRS for Music wants to force YouTube/Google into a deal to pay for the use of UK music, and supposedly the agreement with Spotify shows that such arrangements are possible with streaming services. Continue reading...

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Songs For Pennies or Stream for Free?

With all the music streaming and download services available, it’s difficult to decide which one to use. iTunes recently introduced their tiered pricing, but Amazon is selling top-tier songs at a cheaper price. Even though iTunes controls the download market, fans looking to buy music might be enticed by Amazon’s price drop.

On the free streaming front, Spotify released libspotify Tuesday night, which allows third-party developers to write applications for the service, and YouTube, though reported to have blocked “premium” videos in the UK and Germany, still provides most music for free, through user-made videos. Continue reading...

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Yahoo! Launches Artist Pages Linked To iTunes and YouTube

Tuesday, Yahoo launched “artist pages“, which provide band tour dates, music videos, reviews and connect to Internet radio services like Last.fm and Pandora, as well as YouTube. Now you can have easy access to updated information about your favorite bands through Yahoo’s extensive network. Continue reading...

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YouTube Blocks Music Videos in Germany

Today, German music fans visiting YouTube will be frustrated, because certain videos have been blocked as the result of a failed licensing deal between Google and German organization GEMA.

GEMA represents 60,000 German artists, and said in a statement that incident is “similar to what happened in Britain two weeks ago.” We reported on the blocked videos in Britain, and the ensuing revolt of PRS for Music and the Featured Artists Coalition. Will there be a similar rebellion in Germany? Continue reading...

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Musicians Support PRS Against Google in Royalties Deal

The music industry’s songwriters and artists have voiced their support of PRS for Music (previously The Performing Rights Society), accusing Google of underpaying royalty fees. The response is because Google, owner of YouTube, removed millions of premium music videos from the site after a failed deal over royalty rates with PRS for Music. The artist’s opinions are posted at fairplayforcreators.com, in which Andy Gill, from 70’s English post-punk band Gang Of Four, argues that: Continue reading...

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Homemade Music Videos Disappear From YouTube

Amateur videos on featuring copyrighted songs on YouTube are being muted or removed, due to a failed deal between the video site and Warner Music Group. The disagreement revolves around the fees paid to Warner for the use of its music videos. Since YouTube uses an automatic process to find unlicensed material on its site, videos of amateurs covering songs and using copyrighted background music are targeted. Continue reading...

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British Music Experience, Youtube Against PRS, Noripcord's 10th Birthday

No Ripcord celebrates its 10th birthday, we moan about not going to SXSW, Youtube squares up to the PRS, and the British Music Experience opens its doors. Read Noripcord's weekly news digest...

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YouTube Stops Broadcasting Itself in the UK

Youtube is blocking access to all premium music videos that were previously available to UK internet users, after failing to reach a licensing deal with the Performing Rights Society (PRS). The BBC reports that “thousands” of music videos were suddenly gone starting late March 9^th, punishing UK consumers for the lack of an agreement. Continue reading...

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Kutiman Remixes YouTube Musicians

Israeli artist Kutiman has developed a new project called ThruYou, which combines samples from a wide range of uploaded videos on Youtube, and remixes the sounds to make full compositions. Basically, he cuts a desired sample from a video of someone singing, for example, and sequences it with a multitude of other sounds taken from YouTube videos. Continue reading...

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YouTube and Universal Set to Strike Video Deal

Universal Music Group and YouTube/Google are a few weeks away from an agreement over the label’s video rights. YouTube will be responsible for creating a new site, Vivo.com, which would distribute Universal’s video content, and step up advertising revenue with new strategies. Continue reading...

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Youtube Symphony Orchestra Musicians Have Been Chosen

Musicians for the Youtube Symphony Orchestra have been selected, and all their videos are posted on YouTube, organized by instrument section. Winners from 30 countries will travel to New York to participate in a three-day classical music summit, and then perform at Carnegie Hall on 15 April under San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Read more...

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Neil Young Supports Warner Music Against YouTube

Neil Young has voiced his support for Warner Music Group’s policy of muting and deleting music videos on Youtube, after negotiations between the two media giants failed. We’ve covered Warner’s draconian tactics in the past, and now Neil Young defends that Warner needs to be better compensated by posting the following on his site:

“You Tube was in its fledgling stages when Warner made an early deal to work with them. Today, other labels have made more lucrative deals for their artists at You Tube.”

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YouTube Allows Video Downloads

YouTube is allowing downloads of its hosted videos, giving authors the option to charge a small fee, and thus creating new revenue for online filmmakers and musicians. To apply, the author must sign up to be a YouTube partner, and have a good amount of viewers to be accepted. Read more...

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Youtube Helps Save Classical Music

The Youtube Symphony will be an orchestra comprised of thousands of musicians from all over the world that submitted audition videos through YouTube. Users of the popular video streaming site will be able to vote on their favorite musicians to send to New York for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra’s April 15 performance at Carnegie Hall. Continue reading...

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User-Created Youtube Videos get Muted

As previously reported by Mashable, YouTube has started muting videos that utilize unauthorized copyrighted music, which encompasses most user-created videos. Affected clips have an official notice underneath declaring unauthorized content, here is the clip pictured. However, the Youtube official blog states that they are giving users the option to mute their own videos, rather than automatically taking them down. Continue reading...

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Warner Music Pulls Videos off YouTube

On Saturday, Warner Music Group ordered Google, the present owner of YouTube, to remove from its site all music videos by its artists, after licensing negotiations broke down the previous day.

Warner said: “We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,” reports Reuters.

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