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by crystalmace 3452 days ago
Does YouTube actually pay for music licensing though? It's users are the ones that upload the music, afaik all YouTube is responsible for is responding to takedown requests
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zeeZ 3452 days ago
They are paying for music licensing. In Germany about 60℅ of the top 1000 videos were blocked due to disagreements with GEMA about fees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_...

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