YouTube, PRS in the UK (Performing Rights Society 4 music)

0:00 Videos taken off where there's music inside those videos

Alright folks, may have broached this subject in the past but this is exceedingly important because this involves me and it involves you if you like to play music on video sharing sites like of course this one YouTube. Now more recently there's been a problem with the PRS, not exactly sure what's going on but this could involve me and it could involve you because all of a sudden we could have our... videos taken off where there's music inside those videos. So, how are we going to get around this? Are you a record company? Are you one of the people who just don't like people playing your music and want to take it off? Maybe you're an artist, maybe you don't like your music being played. Maybe, I don't know, maybe you just sing, maybe you write music. How can we get around this?

0:52 I am making you guys money

What I try to do, this is personally, is in most of my videos and I need to go through them, I try and put the name of the artist, the name of the title and where possible and appropriate maybe even a link in the description to relevant information for that artist. Now the way I look at it is that if I'm only playing tiny snippets of let's say your music, if anything I feel I am promoting The whole industry as well as promoting you. The amount of times I have had emails from people saying, Jonathan, I love that track, where can I get it from? So, I am making you guys money. We are making you guys money. Now what I don't like and I totally and utterly understand and agree is if you've got someone who will play the entire track in perfect stereo and people can download it.

2:24 Maybe maybe

Alright, admittedly I've listened to a few of those tracks and I've got maybe one or two as favourites, but that's as far as it's gone because I like it. But having said that, if there are people out there who are just getting a complete track, six, seven minutes, and putting a little picture by it, then to me that is wrong. Okay, we've got the ten minute mix. We've got the picture mix, etc. Now again, in my eyes, that is just promoting music. It's getting people involved. It's getting people motivated. It's getting people to want to get back into music, etc., etc. Now, in my eyes, that is not wrong. Is it wrong to you, Mr. and Mrs. person who owns these rather large big companies? If maybe you're involved, like I said, with the companies, then let us know. You could just open an account and be anyone's name and just put a comment underneath here. It doesn't really matter. Let us know what you think. How can we get around this? How can we get around it so we haven't necessarily got this utopia of music where videos are concerned? But at least it would be fantastic to know that people like myself...

And, well, anyone for that matter who likes to put videos on the web can put them on with a bit of music knowing full well they're not all of a sudden going to be taken off because I know hopefully as well as a lot of people out there who put music videos on the internet. We know, maybe you should, maybe you do, maybe you don't know, but you should know that we're promoting the music industry. In turn, the companies, the artists are gaining from this. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Hey, and by the way, if you don't answer and don't leave a comment, the horse's head will be in your bed.

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