Finally, Amy Lee Will Make Bank From “Buffy” Fan Videos Set To “Lithium”
From today’s Wall Street Journal:
Google Inc.’s YouTube is broadening its efforts to legitimize music and videos posted on its video-sharing site through a deal that will authorize the use of hit music by several acts signed to a prominent independent label. The deal, with Wind-up Entertainment Inc. covers more than 225 songs. Each time one of the songs licensed in the agreement is played, either in a promotional music video or as the background for a video created by a user, Wind-up is to receive an undisclosed share of revenue from advertising that runs on the same page.
Reading this made us wonder two things: Does this mean that videos using Wind-Up songs will be unembeddable? And will this new revenue stream will inspire Scott Stapp to start vlogging his everyday goings-on, with songs from The Great Divide playing softly in the background? Because we figure his ramblings will be excellent Internet trainwreck fodder, and now that it can make him money, everybody wins.
