Zoë Keating's Youtube dilemma 2015-01-24 by StreetlightRock | 10 Comments | In a recent blog post, cellist extraordinaire Zoë Keating expressed her frustration at Youtube's newly established music streaming service, Music Key. Taking issue with with the lack of control offered by the site's service agreement, Keating wrote:
"The Youtube music service was introduced to me as a win win and they don’t understand why I don’t see it that way. “We are trying to create a new revenue stream on top of the platform that exists today.” A lot of people in the music industry talk about Google as evil. I don’t think they are evil. I think they, like other tech companies, are just idealistic in a way that works best for them. I think this because I used to be one of them. The people who work at Google, Facebook, etc can’t imagine how everything they make is not, like, totally awesome. If it’s not awesome for you it’s because you just don’t understand it yet and you’ll come around. They can’t imagine scenarios outside their reality."
Specifically, Keating has been left with the choice of either signing on with the new agreement, or having her Youtube channel blocked altogether. Keating, whose musical career has been distinguished by - among other things - control over her own music, isn't taking the choice lightly:
"Is such control too much for an artist to ask for in 2015? It’s one thing for individuals to upload all my music for free listening (it doesn’t bother me). It’s another thing entirely for a major corporation to force me to. I was encouraged to participate and now, after I’m invested, I’m being pressured into something I don’t want to do."
Ending her post with a plea, she asks:
"What should I do? As much as it makes me grind my teeth, does having all my music forced onto Youtube’s music service really just not matter all that much? Should I just close my eyes and think of England?"
Read the rest of the blog here: http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i-do-about-youtube
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Great post.
I really don't understand what they're trying to do at Google with Music Key.
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Dam that's fucked up.
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so can we start using vimeo yet
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fuckin fascists man jk. Artists really do kind of get shit on from everywhere these days
Great post. [2]
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this chick always as something going on in her life...her music is pretty though
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Well, if she is okay with an individual uploading her music, the outcome of her being forced to do the same thing doesn't change.
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the outcome doesn't seem to change, but the simple choice does
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Yeah it's really the same thing but ultimately I think she shouldn't be forced to do anything with her music, if she chooses to let her fans do shit thats one thing
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http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/01/23/breaking-youtube-says-zoe-keatings-claims-patently-false
YouTube's denying the veracity of her claims.
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"After discovering that Keating was taking detailed notes of her conversation with a YouTube representative, YouTube appears to be re-grouping to clarify their policies and figure out exactly what artists are being told. They have also not clearly explained why they are demanding a retraction from Digital Music News."
Sounds like they are trying to cover their ass. I guess we'll no more when she publishes the transcript of the conversation
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