Universal wants a cut of VOD

Feb 1st, 2005 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Universal’s actually going to pull it’s artists’ videos from any on-demand service that doesn’t pay it a new royalty fee (above the fees already paid out to the PROs and to SoundExchange, which eventually get to artists). So let me get this right: you’re asking these services to pay you to advertise your product?

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