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If you want to be a real artist stop trying to sell your art and
give it away for free.<br>
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Art wants to be free.<br>
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Dr. Strangelove<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/05/2016 8:07 AM, Geert Lovink
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt;
font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700" class="">Dear
YouTube: An open letter from Irving Azoff (from APRA
Online Digest #254)</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt;
font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">"You have built a
business that works really well for you
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'ArialMT'" class="">and for Google, but it doesn’t work
well for artists," says
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'ArialMT'" class="">the legendary artists' manager. Your
attempt at "Setting
the Record Straight" through </span><span
style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT';
color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">a
post on your "creator
blog" </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt;
font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">last month did exactly
the opposite: It was
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'ArialMT'" class="">obfuscation to divert artists’
attention from the fact that
YouTube hides behind the DMCA’s "safe harbor"
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'ArialMT'" class="">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 </span><span
style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;" class="">programming.
Those programs sit behind a "paid wall" and are not
accessible for free unless YouTube </span><font class=""
face="ArialMT"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">decides
to make them available that way. If a fan wants to
watch the YouTube series "Sister-Zoned,</span><span
style="font-size: 13px;" class="">”</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></font><span
style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;" class="">that
fan has to subscribe to YouTube Red for $9.99 a month.
But the same does not apply to music.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family:
'ArialMT'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%,
100.000000%)" class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.recode.net/2016/5/9/11609494/irving-azoff-youtube-artists-streaming-music"
class="">http://www.recode.net/2016/5/9/11609494/irving-azoff-youtube-artists-streaming-music</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/7358065/irving-azoff-jumps-into-youtube-war-on-this-we-are"
class="">http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/7358065/irving-azoff-jumps-into-youtube-war-on-this-we-are</a> </span></p>
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