YouTube UK has put the plug back in on music videos on the streaming service, after brokering a deal with the PRS for Music group, meaning full official videos, rather than dodgy radio recordings thwacked up there by teens, will return. Huzzah! Read on for the full info.
Cast your mind back to earlier this year when YouTube unceremeniously stopped streaming thousands of music videos from popular music acts after a clash about royalties due. For a long time it appeared as if that really was it, but YouTube has been hard at work striving to get them back amongt the prat falls and keyboard playing cats.
According to the BBC, YouTube is paying a sum of money to PRS covering January 2009 all the way through until 2012, although how much it’s coughing up remains to be known. Still, the PRS now says that it and YouTube can “be friends again”, so expect plenty of Calvin Harris videos and no takedowns for some time to come.
