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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Yeah, there are billions of plays on YouTube each year and the artist and songwriters aren't paid a cent (or even a fraction thereof).
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It's an interesting problem, because most of the content on youtube is people who put stuff up just for the attention, and google makes ad money off of them.
Some people on youtube get paid, though, if they get enough views. I don't know how much, but they get paid. So is the problem that people are putting up music that's not theirs? I presume that I wouldn't get paid if I put up a Springsteen video that got 20 million views, but I would if I put up a video of my kitten chasing its tail. How does Google sort that out? It seems like they could figure out pretty quickly that any video of Springsteen that generates revenue in their model should get paid out to Springsteen and not "SpringsteenCrazyFan2015".