MidemNet 2009 Liveblog: Google’s David Eun talks music

What, you may be wondering, does Google have to say for itself at MidemNet this year? David Eun is VP of content partnerships at the company, and he's being interviewed on-stage by TAG Strategic's Ted Cohen.First question: “Why are you trying to screw the record labels?” Hurrah! “There is this presumption that people are part of the problem, not part of the solution,” fires back David. “The presumption that we're trying to screw the labels is not true, obviously, and for me it's just unproductive.”So, he rocks the line about Google not creating its own content, but just organising other people's. Cohen asks about YouTube traffic. “Every minute of the day we have over 15 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube,” he says. “We have hundreds and hundreds of millions of views being consumed every day, over 20 versions of YouTube around the world, and over half the videos on YouTube have some sort of comment or rating – a social interaction.”But he stresses that Google is into partnerships with all the elements in the music industry. “We don't make money unless our partners make money, so the idea that we would screw a partner on whom we depend [...]