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YouTube to dish out millions in unclaimed songwriter royalties

article published on 9 December, 2016

YouTube is to pay out millions of dollars in unclaimed songwriter royalties for tracks on the service between August 2012, and December 2015. In an agreement with the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) it will attempt to pay royalties for tracks with unknown owners. While the official figure was not made public, the New York Times puts it at more than $40 million. Publishers ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		9. December 2016 @ 20:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
While this is a noble deed and honorable, it's just not the same after they got ragged on about this and now they're simply "owning up" and doing the right thing.

Good to hear though.
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