YouTube fights back against Music Industry

YouTube continues to pile on the pressure over article thirteen of the European Copyright Directive as the final phase of negotiations regarding the copyright reforms continues in Brussels. This time the Google firm's top music man, ex-label exec Lyor Cohen, has intervened, telling labels to think about all the fun-time covers and parodies that could be lost if new European copyright laws increase the liabilities of user-upload platforms like his.

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