<videovortex> Dear YouTube: An open letter from Irving Azoff

[Geert Lovink]

Dear YouTube: An open letter from Irving Azoff (from APRA Online Digest #254)

"You have built a business that works really well for you and for Google, but it doesn’t work well for artists," says the legendary artists' manager. Your attempt at "Setting the Record Straight" through a post on your "creator blog" last month did exactly the opposite: It was obfuscation to divert artists’ attention from the fact that YouTube hides behind the DMCA’s "safe harbor" provision and pays artists a pittance. You say that music matters to YouTube. There is an old adage about actions and words. If YouTube valued music, then it would allow artists to have the same control which YouTube grants to itself. YouTube has created original programming. Those programs sit behind a "paid wall" and are not accessible for free unless YouTube decides to make them available that way. If a fan wants to watch the YouTube series "Sister-Zoned,” that fan has to subscribe to YouTube Red for $9.99 a month. But the same does not apply to music.

http://www.recode.net/2016/5/9/11609494/irving-azoff-youtube-artists-streaming-music http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/7358065/irving-azoff-jumps-into-youtube-war-on-this-we-are 


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