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German publishers back GEMA
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 9 April 2009
In related news, Germany’s music publishers publicly voiced its support for their collecting society GEMA in its fight for better YouTube royalties yesterday.
The German music publishing sector’s trade body, DMV, said that Google needed to return to the negotiating table with “reasonable arguments” and a deal will included “fair remuneration” and a commitment to provide GEMA with all the information and data it needed to be able to properly account to its members.
DMV VP Karl-Heinz Klempnow was quoted as saying: “The music publishers hope that polemics can be cut out in favour of the whole matter”, a statement possibly lost a little in translation.
