Music streaming: what do songwriters really get from YouTube or Pandora?

Writers are angry about the royalties they get when their tracks are played – they deserve a bigger (pizza) slice of the actionThere's been much speculation as to the enormous amount of money Psy must have raked in from the hundreds of millions of hits his Gangnam Style video has had on YouTube. There's no way of knowing for sure, as all Google/YouTube deals are covered by non-disclosure agreements – and do not allow independent labels to demand audits. However, the chances are that though t...

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