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<div class="column"><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 face="ArialMT" class=""><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 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 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><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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