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Zoë Keating über die Bedingungen für YouTubes neuen Streamingdienst:

This new music service agreement covers my Content ID account and it includes mandatory participation in Youtube’s new subscription streaming service, called Music Key, along with all that participation entails. Here are some of the terms I have problems with:

1) All of my catalog must be included in both the free and premium music service. Even if I don’t deliver all my music, because I’m a music partner, anything that a 3rd party uploads with my info in the description will be automatically included in the music service too.

2) All songs will be set to “montetize”, meaning there will be ads on them.

3) I will be required to release new music on Youtube at the same time I release it anywhere else. So no more releasing to my core fans first on Bandcamp and then on iTunes.

4) All my catalog must be uploaded at high resolution, according to Google’s standard which is currently 320 kbps.

Der kommende Musikdienst von YouTube, „YouTube Music Key“,  wird sich von anderen Diensten vor allem durch von Nutzern hochgeladenen Inhalten unterscheiden. Ein naheliegendes Alleinstellungsmerkmal, bedenkt man nicht nur die Ausrichtung von YouTube sondern auch die Mechanismen, die über die Jahre implementiert wurden wie etwa YouTubes Fingerprint-Werkzeug Content ID.

YouTube hat nicht nur die Community sondern auch die Werkzeuge, um die von der Community hochgeladenen Inhalte zu identifizieren.

Zumindest in der Theorie. In der Praxis ist so ein System immer ein Stück weit chaotisch; was nicht der Technologie, sondern der Lizenzthematik geschuldet ist.

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But YouTube’s service will have one thing that all the other paid services won’t have, at least for now: The ability to listen to many of the songs users have uploaded, via videos, that aren’t part of music acts’ official catalogs, like concert recordings or remixes.

Android Police hat Neuigkeiten zum kommenden Musikdienst von YouTube, der „YouTube Music Key“ heißen soll und parallel zu „Google Play Music All Access“ angeboten werden wird.

Wenig überraschend, weil Teil der Majorlabelverträge, wird auch der neue Google-Musikdienst 9,99$ pro Monat kosten.

YouTube is set to launch a service called YouTube Music Key, and Google is set to rebrand Google Play Music All Access to Google Play Music Key.
Specifically, it looks like YouTube Music Key will offer ad-free music, audio-only playback (for background or screen-off listening), and offline playback.

Of course, one of Music Key’s major value propositions is that users will have access not just to official discographies, but to concert footage, covers, and remixes. Play Music already houses some remixes and covers, but YouTube as a platform is significantly more open and workable for derivative content – the platform is much easier to add content to, and user discoverability is substantially different from Play Music.