YouTube UK To Bring Music Videos Back

Following a blackout period of about six months, music videos are set to make their return to YouTube UK.  YouTube's worked out an agreement with PRS for Music, a trade body that collects royalties and at one point asked to be paid about 0.36 cents each time a clip was played.

It was when YouTube UK's previous agreement with PRS expired that the problems began.  YouTube representatives argued that a proposed new arrangement would cause it to lose money every time someone watched a music video.  PRS, citing Google's riches, was unsympathetic.  So YouTube UK just pulled all music videos that had been supplied or claimed by record labels.

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The new deal should keep the two sides acting civil for a while, as it runs through June 2012.  It supposedly has YouTube paying the PRS a lump sum instead of proceeding on a per-clip basis.