
We enjoyed reading the comment piece in Saturday’s Sun newspaper by music mogul Pete Waterman, who weighed into the YouTube / PRS for music debate firmly in the latter’s corner. Even if when we sat down with a calculator, we were puzzled about the maths behind his argument.He talks about Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, which Waterman co-wrote, as an example. “That song must have been played more than 100million times on YouTube. It has become one big advertising campaign for the site. And last year, they paid me