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Country Profile – Denmark 2022
Signs seem positive for the Danish music industry going forward. Although the Danish music industry itself doesn’t seem particularly keen to say so.
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Danish music returning to YouTube due to Polaris licensing deal
Danish collecting society Koda has been at loggerheads with YouTube since late July, when it claimed that the video service was preparing to “remove all Danish music from YouTube” after the expiry of a licensing deal.
The issue was a disagreement over the payment terms offered to temporarily extend the deal until a new agreement covering the whole Nordic region was ready.
Koda said YouTube had reduced payments by almost 70% in the bridging deal, while YouTube retorted by saying that simply reflected the performance of Koda members’ music on its platform – i.e. that the previous deal had overpaid.
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YouTube responds to Koda over Danish music takedowns
Earlier this week, we wrote about a controversy brewing Denmark with a dispute between collecting society Koda and YouTube.
Koda announced that YouTube would be removing its members music from its platform, after the society declined a temporary extension to its licensing deal (while a new one is being negotiated by pan-Nordic hub Polaris) that it claimed would “reduce the payment provided to composers and songwriters for YouTube’s use of music by almost 70%”.
Now YouTube has offered Music Ally its side of the story, saying that despite making good progress with Polaris, it has yet to finalise a deal. YouTube also says that the short-term agreement to cover interim licensing for Koda reflects the performance of the society’s members’ music over recent times.
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YouTube under fire over music licensing impasse in Denmark
Something is kicking off in the state of Denmark, and it’s the latest music licensing controversy around YouTube.
Danish collecting society Koda issued a press release last week titled ‘Google removes all Danish music from YouTube’, although the first paragraph makes it clear that this removal hasn’t happened yet.
The background is negotiations for a new deal between YouTube and collecting societies in Norway, Finland and Denmark, operating jointly through their Polaris licensing hub to replace their existing individual deals. Koda’s expired in April, but the society says it was temporarily extended while the new Nordic deal was being thrashed out.
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Danish study reveals music piracy has fallen in last two years
In 2019, we wrote about a couple of piracy reports (here and here) that offered good news for the music industry: sharp declines in music piracy over the previous year. Now there’s […]
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Polaris survey reveals latest Nordics streaming stats
The Nordic region is one of the most mature territories for music streaming in the world. Now the Polaris Hub – the licensing hub formed by collecting societies in Denmark, Norway […]
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SoundCloud Go+ subscription service launches in the Nordics
SoundCloud Go+, the streaming service’s subscription tier for listeners, has expanded into four new markets – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. They’ll now get access to its full catalogue of more than […]
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Nordic collecting societies launch Polaris Hub with Facebook deal
Collecting societies getting together to form licensing and processing ‘hubs’ is a familiar trend. In Europe, there’s already ICE (set up by PRS for Music, GEMA and STIM) and Armonia Online (originally founded by […]
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Danish court rules that stream-ripping is illegal
Given the growth of the recorded-music market overall, it’s hard to make apocalyptic predictions about how specific forms of piracy will damage the industry.
Not that rightsholders haven’t been tempted to do that with ‘stream-ripping’, with several reports and industry-body announcements proclaiming that tools for turning YouTube streams into downloads are the new menace.
The industry has had some success in getting players like YouTube-MP3 shut down, which may also have contributed to the lack of a widespread panic about stream-ripping’s impact. Anyway, for people who are worried, there was some more good news this week, from Denmark.
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Country Profile – Denmark 2017
It might be a curious reticence to blow their own trumpet, but the successes of the Danish music industry – where an 8.8% rise in recorded music revenue was posted last year – should be more widely heralded
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Warner Music on how Christopher topped the charts in China (#midem)
How many Danish pop stars have topped the charts in China? One of them was at the Midem conference today, as artist Christopher was joined by his manager and key execs from Warner Music Group to explain his Chinese success.
The group included Beth Appleton, SVP of global marketing at WMG; manager Thomas Børresen; Jonas Siljemark, president Nordics at WMG; and Simon Robson, president Asia at WMG. The moderator was CMU’s Chris Cooke.