Dutch Collection Society Backs Down Slightly On Video Embeds
from the but-not-really dept
Dennis Laumen alerts us to an update on the story concerning Dutch music collection society Buma/Stemra’s plan to charge bloggers for embedding YouTube videos on their site. After the story got lots of publicity, Buma appears to have backed down ever so slightly, saying that “amateur” bloggers are off the hook. But, the definition of “amateur” is basically only if you don’t have any ads. Put up some Google AdSense… and suddenly you’re a “pro” who has to pay up.
Filed Under: collection society, embeds, netherlands, performance, youtube videos
Companies: buma/stemra
Comments on “Dutch Collection Society Backs Down Slightly On Video Embeds”
Nice to see we start off the week with a healthy dose of utter stupidity.
Of course
Of course you become pro after you start putting ads on there, you’re making big moneys now!
Let's take every Facebook user to court ...
Let’s take every Facebook user to court, they all have some Youtube (and similar stuff) on their “home-page” … Aaah, how lawyers can always keep their agenda filled …
What's next?
I suppose after putting this in place and seeing the resulting increase in simple links to the same relevant videos, they will start demanding money for those links as well.
Re: What's next?
Only if they are blue
The important thing is to keep the legal department busy.
All other aspects of the business must be subordinated to this superior goal.
The appropriate response for bloggers to give the collection racket
I cordially invite you to go fornicate yourself with an iron stick.
If only someone could translate that into Dutch.
Re: The appropriate response for bloggers to give the collection racket
“Maandag”
Re: The appropriate response for bloggers to give the collection racket
“Ik nodig u vriendelijk uit uzelf seksueel te bevredigen met een ijzeren staaf”
You’re welcome. 🙂
Missing the point
Oh, we will still have bloggers. Programs like Google’s AdSense have just taken a shot in the shorts though and Google has lots of nice lawyers to “discuss” this issue with the Dutch.
Aww, kinda sad I am in Sweden and not where they can come after me for embedding their videos in my pages, would really make me feel good to tell them to go F themselves and eat sh!t when they came with their begging bowls.