Music Publishers’ Association Joins Indie Music YouTube Battle
The UK’s Music Publishers’ Association (MPA) has joined the growing chorus of music industry trade groups that support independent music community's ongoing battle with Google's YouTube over heavy handed negotiations and the deal being offered for their upcoming streaming music service.
“If companies such as Google are now acting in the role of cultural gatekeepers, whether by accident or by design, they must bear some responsibility to not act against the interests of the creators upon whose labour large parts of their business are built,” said MPA CEO Sarah Osborn.
In the U.S., the American Association Of Independent Music is leading the charge.
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Why battle against Youtube/Google? Red Dragon Records have commissioned a whole new video and sharing site being built from the ground up. It should be ready within 3 weeks or so and will rival youtube as a heavyweight platform.
It’s time the indies actually utilized the power they have and separated from the mainstream media sites and became real indies
#Tom: you really cant be serious? There are billions of video platforms out there, but you need all the mainstream content which only Youtube have. A small unknown indie label would never be able to scale…