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One of music's big managers wants to pull 20,000 songs from YouTube
You may not know who Irving Azoff is, but he's considered one of the most powerful managers in the music business... and right now, he's wielding that power against YouTube. The industry vet's recently established royalty group, Global Music Rights, has sent letters to YouTube insisting that it pull 20,000 songs that it allegedly doesn't have a license to play, including tunes from John Lennon and Pharrell Williams. A Google spokesman tells the Wall Street Journal that YouTube has the necessary rights for its new Music Key service, but Azoff doesn't believe those count. Also, he argues that any royalty deal to keep the songs in place would require payments "major multiples" larger than what YouTube pays artists right now.
