Sources: Facebook is in talks with record labels about licensing their music, focusing on how to prevent copyright violations in user-generated videos
Tech Roundup Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter : Facebook Hopes To Gather Music Videos With Recording Industry Deals Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook is pushing record labels to let you soundtrack your videos Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Facebook reportedly wants to cozy up to music labels Tweets: Rafat Ali / @rafat : Invariably, a story that leaks saying “big company/platform talking to labels to launch something”, it never really launches ever. http://twitter.com/... @mattnavarra : Facebook is in talks with music labels to offer an alternative to YouTube http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Strong reporting, but lacked analysis of how soundtracks could work & how Fb already has Rights Manager. So I wrote: http://techcrunch.com/... http://twitter.com/... Nmpa / @nmpaorg : “We're hopeful that they are moving towards licensing music for the entire site,” said @DavidIsraelite http://www.bloomberg.com/... @Lucas_Shaw