The Dutch collecting society for composers and music publishers Buma/Stemra plan to charge Dutch bloggers and website owners rather ridiculously high sums for using embedded YouTube music videos. The organisation dug up an ‘old’ idea from 2008 to start charging bloggers for every embedded video they have on their site starting from 2010. The prices (ex VAT) for embedding videos are:
- 6 embedded files € 130 / year
- 12 embedded files € 260 / year
- 30 embedded files € 650 / year
- 31 and more embedded files € 650 x (number blocks of 30 files) / year
Length or total views have no single impact on the prices. The industrial music magazine Side-Line said that if it would have a Dutch owner, it would have to pay no less than € 65.000 (ex VAT) per year because the site has over 3000 embedded music videos in news articles.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
[...] Dutch collecting society for composers and music publishers Buma/Stemra has cancelled its plan to charge Dutch bloggers and website owners for using embedded YouTube music videos. The decision came after huge protests in the online community, in Holland but also abroad. Or how [...]
October 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
[...] whole smells awfully disgusting knowing they had plans to start charging bloggers for embedding YouTube videos, whatever the number of plays, whatever the length of the videos. They had to pull back quickly [...]