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Or, more than likely, if Youtube and others can't afford to deal with the restrictions imposed on them by GEMA and the courts - GEMA is now free to prop up thei
by drone 14y ago
Or, more than likely, if Youtube and others can't afford to deal with the restrictions imposed on them by GEMA and the courts - GEMA is now free to prop up their own front. Of course, at little to no licensing fees to the operators, while making a tidy profit by giving GEMA the control they desire.
It looks like a textbook regulatory capture play, through the courts rather than the legislature.
- chris_wot 14y agoUh... If Sony and all the other Record companies couldn't make it, then what makes you think that GEMA can do what they can't? It's not like they have any sort of innovative platform - they seem to be spending most of their time enforcing copyright! That business model is... limited.
- DasIch 14y agoThe GEMA can't "prop up their own front" because they don't have any money for that nor is it even remotely reasonable that they will ever get it.