Neil Young: pissed off by YouTube
p2pnet news view Music | P2P | Movies:- Warner Reprise records was one of the very first to embrace You Tube. You Tube was in its fledgling stages when Warner made an early deal to work with them. Today, other labels have made more lucrative deals for their artists at You Tube.
Thus blogs Canada’s Neil Young, hitting out at YouTube, “by complaining it ‘unfairly’ punishes artists to keep the online video business ticking over,” explains The Register.
“So You Tube is the new radio — but not quite,” Young states, going on »»»
Radio used to introduce music to the masses and was crucial to every new release, with identical compensation for every artist and label. Since You Tube has given some labels better deals that others, the Media Giant is treating artists unequally, depending on which label they are on.
Today’s web world has created a new way. Artists today can go directly to the people. There is nothing standing between the artists and their audience. Freedom of expression reigns. People today feel that they should be able to get all the music and art that they want, from the artists who they appreciate. When that conduit is broken, the connection is weakened.
If all artists were compensated equally, and the people decided who had the hits and misses by virtue of number of downloads and plays, there could be no grounds for disagreement that would cause the facilitator of the art to break the conduit between an artist and an audience. That is what has happened to Warner Bros artists caught in You Tube’s web. You Tube has a responsibility to respect the artists it facilitates and resist punishing them to make a business point.
It is time for industry wide standards of artist’s compensation on the web.
Reprise and Warner Bros artists deserve what artists from other labels are getting. Let the people decide what constitutes success. Warner Bros and Reprise are looking for a level playing field. Until they get one, these problems may not go away. That is the essence of the issue between Warner Bros Reprise and You Tube.
(Cheers, Marc)
The Register – Neil Young posts angry YouTube missive, March 4, 2009
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March 4th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
“It is time for industry wide standards of artistâs compensation on the web.”
Compensation for *what* exactly? The free advertising and promotion you’re getting?
Get your nose out of the industry’s posterior, you corporate whore. Stop pretending that you have to be “compensated” every time someone hears your music.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Neil Young? Might as well be called Neil Old from now on!
March 4th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
lol
March 4th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Maybe your on to something with the tag Neil Old. Neil isn’t doing all the activity now a days he used to with on stage performances. So the only money he has coming in other then the rare appearance is royalties. I am sure he wants his 75 years worth. Only those songs are now very old and not worth what they were in their heyday. Younger folks have probably never heard of him. So he’s pushing what ever he can to help his pocket book.
The majors did a real screwover to the artists with the digital change over.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Shame shame, Neil:
1. Let’s leave aside the fact that he’s “signed” — and is therefore at least implicitly expected/required to deep-throat corporate schlong.
Let’s leave aside the fact that — yet again — an already-wealthy celebrity is whining about the fact that his handlers were unable to squeeze every possible dime.
Let’s leave aside the fact that the guy is a former hippie/counter-culture icon, and is often considered to be the “godfather of grunge” (because it bears some resemblance to his style.) Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a former counterculture icon has turned into a pissy little sellout? At least the Grateful Dead didn’t become total rat bastards, they were friendly to “tapers”, and somehow still managed to become multi-millionaires, but I digress.
There’s something genuinely sad about super-wealthy rock “icons” turning into whimpering, mewlypuking corporate shills.
But what’s even more sad, is the fact that THIS is the way he thinks he can become “relevant” again.
What the hell happened to rock? I’ve seen the footage — Grateful dead on the back of a flatbed truck, doing “free concerts” for all comers. They also didn’t get all pissy about “bootlegs”, etc.
Result: they didn’t just have “fans”; they had an entire “tribe” of people who’d follow their shows around, and it evolved a “culture” unto itself. AND they were genuinely loved and respected by “Deadheads.”
Where’s Neil’s “tribe”, hmmmm?
Corporate weasels piss me off, but money-grubbing, mewlypuking has-beens piss me off even more.
You can tell it’s NOT about the music with this guy, and it hasn’t been for a while.
Pathetic.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Uh wait what? If I buy a Warner product Warner will get paid, not EMI or Sony BMG. How the hell do you expect a world to work where I buy something from one guy and his neighbours think they are entitled to something too?
Oh and BTW time for ISP’s to start billing the media companies. They are using their bandwith for distribution.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
We don’t need him around, anyhow.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
What ever happened to the antidisestablishmentarian that produced “This Note’s For You”??
March 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Perhaps the word should have “anitestablishmentarian”?
Damn! Brain… not work!
: )
March 5th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
He’s probably just upset that video compression makes his lousy voice even more unbearable.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Um… antidisestablishmentarianism is about being against the separation of church and state.
And VIDEO compression probably isn’t affecting the SOUND of his voice, only the clarity of his wrinkles.
March 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Reader’s Write – you are an @ssh0le.
You say “Neil isnât doing all the activity now a days he used to with on stage performances.”
He has been touring relentlessly for the last year and shows no sign of abating with more european dates anoucned again. Neil is 64 this year not eh, 75.
Do some basic research man. You don’t know what you are talking about.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:25 am
A Fan of Neil For YEARS I hope his Music Videos come back, I really miss em