YouTube Should Let Musicians Opt Out, Irving Azoff Says

Recode: “Dear YouTube,” writes Irving Azoff, a leading personal manager for musicians. “Your attempt at ‘Setting the Record Straight’ through a post on your creator blog last month did exactly the opposite: It was obfuscation to divert artists’ attention from the fact that YouTube hides behind the DMCA’s safe harbor provision and pays artists a pittance. You say that music matters to YouTube. There is an old adage about actions and words. If YouTube valued music, then it would allow artists to have the same control which YouTube grants to itself.”