The video-sharing website YouTube has reached a deal to pay royalties to thousands of composers, songwriters and publishers if their track is used as backing music on clips.
Artists such as Lily Allen and Sir Paul McCartney could benefit from the deal after an alliance which includes the Performing Rights Society, has licensed more than 10 million pieces of music for use on YouTube.
The British deal is to avoid the possibility of performers suing Google and follows a similar agreement in America.
Read more: metro.co.uk
Labels: music, Publishers, video, youtube
