But this is not all good news, reportedly in order to make sure that they have the content they need, Google is putting pressure on some labels. Already having signed deals with most major labels they are now setting their sights on the more independent record labels. Google stated that any label that does sign a deal with them for their streaming service would have all their content taken down from YouTube. Meaning these labels wouldn’t be on the streaming service but also have all the free content removed from the site. According to some reports artists like Jack White, Adele, and Vampire Weekend could disappear.
One favor YouTube is granting the Internet is that videos presented on the VEMO platform, will be exempt from this policy. Which is not all that surprising considering that VEVO is a joint venture between Google, and the big record companies such as Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.
If Google goes through with this change, it will hurt one of the greatest by products of YouTube. For many people YouTube is the go to place for new and up-and-coming artists and for smaller indie labels to get the music of talented people into the world. In some cases these “labels” can legitimately be one or two people working out of a studio apartment. These smaller labels do not have the capital or the means to compete with a major label but on YouTube it levels the playing filed. The viral nature of the medium can cause someone that no one has ever heard, to shoot to the top of popular culture. We need that to exist in the world, radio is already taken over by major labels repackaging the same thing and with this change, YouTube will end up the same way.
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