Google has announced that it’s pulling music videos from the German YouTube site, following the expiry of its licensing deal with local collecting society GEMA. And the web giant is so angry about the rates it claims GEMA wants to charge, it’s made them public.Specifically, Google’s Patrick Walker tells Der Spiegel that “It’s unprecedented in the history of music video streaming”, saying that while PRS for Music charges
Now YouTube pulls music videos in Germany
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April 1st, 2009 by Music Ally
