Nikki Sixx ramps up protest against YouTube video royalties
by Mark Sweney from Technology | The Guardian on (#1H0PX)
The former Mitley Cri1/4e member has written to site owners Google, accusing it of stonewalling musicians in negotiations
Mitley Cri1/4e co-founder Nikki Sixx has ramped up his campaign to get YouTube to pay better royalties to artists by writing directly to Larry Page, accusing the Google-owned video-sharing site of stonewalling musicians in negotiations.
Sixx, along with James Michael and the rest of his current band Sixx:AM, became the latest in a string of musicians to criticise YouTube's music video royalty pay out policies in April.
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