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...“Google has put a licensing deal on the table,” said an executive at a newspaper group....
...But record labels and artists have for years complained that the platform was short-changing the industry by hosting a proliferation of fan videos that used their music without licensing permission....
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...So far Shutterstock has seen the reverse – the demand for licensing of its content is accelerating with technology companies seeking more data access and increasing their content budgets as the commercial...
...Then they take off the licensing fees for any music used and then they split the profits between the creators and YouTube, giving the creators 45 per cent and taking the rest....
...The Iconic Images archive includes some of the best-known images in music history including a photo of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar on stage at the Monterey festival, David Bowie around the time of his...
...The experiment, which mirrors the approach taken to licensing in the music industry, potentially has much broader significance for the news business as EU member states begin to interpret and apply the copyright...
...Unsporting as it may be, copycat strategies were inevitable. Even before CVC was picking up stakes in Six Nations and Pro14, football and motorsports were wowing investors....
...It has pledged to spend $1bn over three years on these licensing deals. The reality is that powerful tech companies will continue to try to dictate terms....
...The board pointed to a study showing the high cost of spinning off the unit, including an increase in patent licensing fees and added hurdles to recruiting talent....
...After a years-long stand-off with the big music companies, YouTube struck fresh licensing agreements last year. Music executives are cautiously optimistic....
...The company later hired Tamara Hrivnak, a well-liked licensing expert who originally worked at Warner Music and had been behind the partnerships between YouTube and the music companies....
...Spotify’s vast catalogue of 30m songs due to its licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal allows users to access practically any song they want....
...The pioneer of music streaming has been sealing long-term licensing contracts as it strives for a sounder financial footing ahead of a public listing....
...Total music industry revenues, which include live ticket sales, sponsorships and licensing, rose 3.4 per cent to $47.2bn in 2016 and are expected to increase for a fourth straight year to $49bn in 2017....
...Tad Hunter topped the US music charts with “Young Love” when the S&P 500 index was launched on March 4 1957....
...Vevo struck a licensing deal with Warner Music last summer, filling what had been a gap in a song catalogue that would enable it to compete with the likes of Spotify....
...Lingering paranoia from the Napster shakeout has made licensing negotiations with labels “slow and tough”, says one streaming executive....
...Pandora has struck a licensing deal with Warner Music, filling the last big missing piece in the company’s path towards an on-demand streaming service to rival Spotify....
...The deal comes as the big record labels, plagued by years of shrinking album sales, are in a stand-off with YouTube as they look to create new licensing terms with the world’s biggest streaming music platform...
...Meanwhile the biggest record labels, weighed down by shrinking album sales, are in a row with YouTube as they negotiate new licensing terms with the site....
...The biggest uncertainty is an impending decision by the US Copyright Review Board on licensing rates for the next five years....
...It is now facing competition to some of its top-selling products from a new generation of “biosimilar” copycat medicines....
...The move allows the ecommerce group to broaden its offering of video content without having to pay higher licensing fees, and gives partners access to Amazon’s distribution and billing infrastructure and...
...its licensing deals with other streaming services....
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