Historiker -> RE: Found on youtube (4/16/2012 12:01:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: noguaranteeofsanity Apart from political censorship of Nazi related material, which happens in France and Germany, there is also GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte), which is an organisation that collects royalties for musicans in Germany. They have had a falling out with youtube after demanding more money for each video watched, which has seen a lot of youtube videos blocked, if they contained any music at all, pending a court case. This situation is made worse by some strange case law based on GEMA being a monopoly, called GEMA Vermutung, where the burden of proof is reversed and all published musical works are presumed to be managed by GEMA in Germany, unless you can prove otherwise. Neither make a whole lot of sense given the video in question, but is probably due to one or the other. Blocking by GEMA is annoying, but understandable. But if blocked due to GEMA, it says so. So this video is blocked for political reasons, propably because the publisher has also uploaded a lot of 3rd Reich Videos. Still, as stated above. I get mad each time my government decideds for me what is good and what is not suited for me... [:@]
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