rights: From now on, thousands of music videos that have been banned from the video platform will be made available to users in Germany, according to Deutsche Welle. According to the agreement, You Tube will pay GEMA an undisclosed fee each time a music video is viewed, so that the rights holders can in turn be paid. YouTube and GEMA, Germany music rights organization, have surprisingly ended their seven-year battle over copyright and license fees. Media lawyer Christian Solmecke "Finally artists will be getting money for the music that has always been on You Tube," said Cologne-based media lawyer Christian Solmecke. "That certainly a big success for the rights holders." At the same time, he said, artists won't be making huge sums. YouTube continues to see itself as a technological platform and won't take responsibility in the future for the music that is uploaded to it. He told DW that the new deal between You Tube and GEMA doesn't give artists the legal security he had hoped for.
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