Dutch Collection Society Backs Down Slightly On Video Embeds

from the but-not-really dept

Mon, Oct 12th 2009 2:27am — Mike Masnick

Dennis Laumen alerts us to an update on the story concerning Dutch music collection society Buma/Stemra's plan to charge bloggers for embedding YouTube videos on their site. After the story got lots of publicity, Buma appears to have backed down ever so slightly, saying that "amateur" bloggers are off the hook. But, the definition of "amateur" is basically only if you don't have any ads. Put up some Google AdSense... and suddenly you're a "pro" who has to pay up.

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Filed Under: collection society, embeds, netherlands, performance, youtube videos
Companies: buma/stemra

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Anonymous Poster, 12 Oct 2009 @ 2:30am

Nice to see we start off the week with a healthy dose of utter stupidity.
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Marcel de Jong (profile), 12 Oct 2009 @ 3:13am

Of course
Of course you become pro after you start putting ads on there, you're making big moneys now!
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Rik Reynaers, 12 Oct 2009 @ 3:43am

Let's take every Facebook user to court ...
Let's take every Facebook user to court, they all have some Youtube (and similar stuff) on their "home-page" ... Aaah, how lawyers can always keep their agenda filled ...
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Joshua Jones, 12 Oct 2009 @ 3:48am

What's next?
I suppose after putting this in place and seeing the resulting increase in simple links to the same relevant videos, they will start demanding money for those links as well.
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yogi, 12 Oct 2009 @ 3:50am

The important thing is to keep the legal department busy.

All other aspects of the business must be subordinated to this superior goal.
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..., 12 Oct 2009 @ 5:05am

Re: What's next?
Only if they are blue
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Trails, 12 Oct 2009 @ 5:24am

The appropriate response for bloggers to give the collection racket
I cordially invite you to go fornicate yourself with an iron stick.

If only someone could translate that into Dutch.
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Jerry in Detroit, 12 Oct 2009 @ 6:07am

Missing the point
Oh, we will still have bloggers. Programs like Google's AdSense have just taken a shot in the shorts though and Google has lots of nice lawyers to "discuss" this issue with the Dutch.
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Jon B., 12 Oct 2009 @ 8:10am

Re: The appropriate response for bloggers to give the collection racket
"Maandag"
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Marcel de Jong (profile), 12 Oct 2009 @ 9:13am

Re: The appropriate response for bloggers to give the collection racket
"Ik nodig u vriendelijk uit uzelf seksueel te bevredigen met een ijzeren staaf"

You're welcome. :)
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www.eZee.se (profile), 14 Oct 2009 @ 8:37am

Aww, kinda sad I am in Sweden and not where they can come after me for embedding their videos in my pages, would really make me feel good to tell them to go F themselves and eat sh!t when they came with their begging bowls.
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