16.05.2013 - 10:07 [ techdirt ]

How GEMA Is (Still) The Worst ‚Collective Rights‘ Organization In The World

We‘ve discussed GEMA‘s antagonistic attitude towards, well, pretty much everyone other than itself. In addition to turning the German YouTube experience into a farcical collection of „Sorry“ faces and demanding fees for music it doesn‘t even control, GEMA has also been in the news due to its rollout of a „streamlined“ fee structure that threatens the existence Germany‘s underground club scene with unsustainable licensing rates.