Pursuits
Gwen Stefani, Bruno Mars Take Music Fight With YouTube to EU
- Artists urge changes to copyright laws favoring web companies
- Musicians have sought similar changes to U.S. copyright law
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Gwen Stefani and Bruno Mars joined more than 1,000 artists in a letter asking European regulators to alter copyright laws that they say let YouTube profit from their music without properly compensating them.
In a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the artists bemoaned the discrepancy between how much music people listen to on the Google video site and how much money is paid out to artists.