The music industry is locked in an epic battle with YouTube, the most popular on-demand service, over the declining royalty rates the site pays per stream as it grows, and the difficulty in detecting copyrighted material from the mass of videos uploaded on the site.
The site voluntarily offers record labels a system to automatically block, monetise or mute their music on the site, matching audio files with 99.7 per cent precision, the service says, and a chance for labels to cash in on user-uploaded content instead of merely resorting to sending takedown notices.
But many music rights
The site voluntarily offers record labels a system to automatically block, monetise or mute their music on the site, matching audio files with 99.7 per cent precision, the service says, and a chance for labels to cash in on user-uploaded content instead of merely resorting to sending takedown notices.
But many music rights
