PRS For Music is stepping up its negotiating campaign against YouTube by wheeling out another host of artists and waving around a new licensing agreement it’s signed with Spotify. Last night, Wednesday morning, it held a press conference for the “media launch” of FairPlayForCreators.com, the campaign site that we’ve already…

What do Peter Waterman, Jools Holland, Carol Decker, Abba and Gang Of Four all have in common? They are each amongst the signatories to a new site, Fair Play For Creators, launched by royalty collector PRS For Music as it starts to play hard ball in its YouTube negotiations. PRS…

PRS For Music could this summer reduce the rates online services must pay it - but the royalty collector isn’t convinced sites can make enough from advertising to finance their outgoings… When YouTube went public with its PRS rates spat this month, several online services told us the royalty collector…

Google’s opposition to proposed new UK music rates may look like just public posturing, as private negotiations continue. But it’s only one instance of what may become an increasingly fractious tug ‘o war between online services and the music business in the next few months. Almost uniquely, YouTube’s 2007 blanket…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and YouTube have plenty of company from music services when it comes to concerns over licensing costs but Featured Artists Coalition members Billy Bragg and Dave Rowntree call the company’s attitude “menacing.” Quick catch-up: YouTube claims it would lose money on every play if it meets the…