Deezer prépare son offensive à l'international. Independent labels ink YouTube deal. Merlin, the global rights agency for independent music labels, has signed a deal with YouTube that will allow musicians to get paid when their videos are played.
YouTube has long had arrangements in place to pay artists signed to one of the four major labels -- EMI, Universal, Warner and Sony Music. Independent labels, however, haven't had a deal, meaning that their artists -- which include the likes of Aphex Twin, The Prodigy, Roots Manuva, Antony and the Johnsons, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, and Boards of Canada -- haven't seen any revenues from the massively-popular video sharing site. This deal changes that -- now, music fans will be able to upload content from labels like Earache, Secretly Canadian, Ninja Tune, Cooking Vinyl, Warp, Phonofile, Pschent, Morr Music, ! K7 and Inertia.
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