Perhaps unsurprisingly, artists are getting nervous about the PRS-Google dispute. Beth Orton has come out in favour of royalties: "Certain people can’t just make money from gigs, can they?" she told BBC 6music. She added: "You should get money from recording, because record deals are different now...

Much, much more scattering of reaction from around the world to Google's decision to pull music videos off YouTube. First up, Helienne Lindvall called for us to think about the songwriters: [A]s a songwriter myself, I can tell you that most songwriters haven't seen any income from YouTube at all, si...

COMMENTARY:  By suddenly taking down music videos in the UK, Google's YouTube proved that it could walk away from the table. Music videos, particularly those just in the UK, are something that the mighty Google can live without. Anyone who has ever been involved in high stakes negotiations has prob...

The IPKat thanks Ross Kay for pointing him to this Reuters UK link to a report by Yinka Adegoke that Google online video site YouTube says it's blocking all music videos to British users after it was unable to reach a rights deal with PRS for Music (the main songwriters' collection society). PRS, wh...

Well, thank you, PRS: An unrealistically high demand for royalties on videos shown on YouTube in the UK means that music videos are about to vanish from British PCs: YouTube said today that after the expiry of its former deal, PRS had proposed new payment terms that would be financially prohibitive ...

In the midst of a week off explicitly not doing anything with email - actually, while waiting for a tap to unfreeze so I could fill a bucket with some water - I got to thinking about what the relationship is between PR people and journalists. I got to wondering: what would I tell people in PR given ...