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Music Publishers’ Association backs indies in YouTube dispute

By | Published on Wednesday 25 June 2014

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The UK’s Music Publishers’ Association is the latest music industry trade body to back the indie label community in their battle with YouTube over the terms being offered by the Google subsidiary for its planned audio streaming service.

As much previously reported, indie label trade groups worldwide have criticised YouTube for offering what they consider to be inferior terms regarding the new audio set-up. And even more so for threatening to take away full access to the firm’s popular video platform from the indies if they don’t play ball over the new service.

UK record label trade body the BPI, which reps both indies and the majors, who have signed up to the new YouTube service, has backed the independent community’s stance, and yesterday the MPA also confirmed its support at the music publishing sector trade group’s annual general meeting in London.

MPA CEO Sarah Osborn said: “If companies such as Google are now acting in the role of cultural gatekeepers, whether by accident or by design, they must bear some responsibility to not act against the interests of the creators upon whose labour large parts of their business are built”.

Elsewhere at the AGM, Chris Butler was re-elected unopposed to the role of MPA Chairman.



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