Google's YouTube Strikes Deal With French Artists

PARIS (Dow Jones)--Google Inc.'s (GOOG) YouTube said Thursday that it had signed an agreement with three French royalty-collecting societies to pay artists when their works are shown on the video sharing website.

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Under the deal, the French collecting societies SACD, SCAM and ADAGP will receive payments from YouTube said Google in a statement. The collecting societies--who represent a range of filmmakers, screenwriters and authors--then redistribute the money to their members. The ...click here to continue reading