Here's the press release from Koda Press release
For people who don't know who/what Koda is, here's a small explanation from Wiki:
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
I don't listen to a lot of danish music, and definitely not on Youtube, but the worst part is Youtube apparently blocked a lot of other international songs from artists like Eminem, Linkin Park, a whole-lot of Hip Hop, RnB and more. I have a VPN, so I can still listen/watch to it all, but it's weird times for a lot of Youtube viewers in Denmark right now.
For people who don't know who/what Koda is, here's a small explanation from Wiki:
KODA is the collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers of Denmark.
Its role is to act as an agent for its members in order to collect license fees whenever their musical works are performed in public, broadcast or transmitted, and to pay out performing royalties.
In 1935, an agreement reached with and a concession were given by the Danish Ministry of Culture in which the public performance rights were established.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
The agreement will replace the local agreements of the Norwegian, Finnish and Danish composers and songwriters’ societies, combining them in a single, joint agreement with Google. In the case of Koda, the national agreement for Denmark expired in April, after which it was temporarily extended – as is standard practice in the industry while negotiating a new agreement.
Now, however, Google have issued a new demand: if the agreement is to be temporarily extended, Koda must agree to reduce the payment provided to composers and songwriters for YouTube’s use of music by almost 70% – despite the fact that YouTube’s use of music has increased significantly since Koda entered into its last agreement with Google.
Now of course this is only from Koda's point of view. From what I can tell, Dan Chalmers, director of Youtube Music in Europe, Koda is simply asking for more money than what's fair in comparison to other countries.Of course, Koda cannot accept these terms, and Google have now unilaterally decided that Koda’s members cannot have their content shown on YouTube and that their fans and users on YouTube will be unable to listen to Koda members’ music until a new agreement is in place.
I don't listen to a lot of danish music, and definitely not on Youtube, but the worst part is Youtube apparently blocked a lot of other international songs from artists like Eminem, Linkin Park, a whole-lot of Hip Hop, RnB and more. I have a VPN, so I can still listen/watch to it all, but it's weird times for a lot of Youtube viewers in Denmark right now.