YouTube is launching a new music video subscription service and artists who don’t agree to their terms may be left out in the cold.
YouTube’s decision to remove indie labels for subscription service isn’t just wrong, it’s, honestly, stupid.http://t.co/gENJwEo2r8
— Federico Viticci (@viticci) June 18, 2014
According to Billboard:
Acts like Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend, who account for up to 10% of all the music for which YouTube typically has rights to feature, are likely to be pulled down as the world’s largest video service has been unable to reach an agreement with the some of the leading independent labels, including the Beggars Group.
Well, that's a terrifying amount of content to possibly disappear from YouTube: http://t.co/9NCFeO6aS5
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) June 17, 2014
http://t.co/JCcWKYTl4j Wow. I hope you guys are paying attention to Youtube. Looks like some content is about to go missing. Maybe mine.
— Marian Call & the Guttersnipes (@mariancall) June 17, 2014
@PeterHollens, @LindseyStirling, @brentalfloss, @SmoothMcGroove, @PTXofficial, everyone needs to stand against this: http://t.co/y2nmV5rhoz
— Matt Holden (@JaedenStormes) June 17, 2014
@JaedenStormes I feel like this writer hasn't explained the situation entirely. Can't Indie labels just put their music videos on Youtube?
— Brent Black (@brentalfloss) June 17, 2014
@brentalfloss From how I'm reading it, any musician who doesn't agree to be on Google's streaming service risks getting their videos deleted
— Matt Holden (@JaedenStormes) June 17, 2014
Google always screwing indie artists.. http://t.co/VaRqlHzWig #newmusic
— 8DiamondsInTheRough (@DarnaaMusic) June 18, 2014