On Nov. 1, a seven-year standoff between the global video platform and German music-rights organization GEMA was resolved, after both parties signed a licensing agreement to ensure remuneration to ...

The reason? Relations between YouTube and GEMA, the European country’s music royalties collection agency, have grown so strained that the video-sharing site was forced to block German access to nearly ...

YouTube has struck a “landmark” deal with music rights organization GEMA (“Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte”) in Germany, following a dispute that ...

RT's German YouTube channels have been blocked over alleged COVID-19 misinformation. What does the German government make of the move? And what do other observers think? The recent suspension of two ...

Deutschland's anti-trust regulator wants to force Google to give users more powerful controls over the way their data is shared with subsidiaries like YouTube. Reading time 3 minutes German regulators ...

YouTube is rolling out its pay-TV service YouTube Primetime Channels in Germany. The initial line-up includes ARD Plus, Crime + Investigation Play, European League of Football, Fernsehen mit Herz ...

YouTube unveiled its first German shows, including two comedy formats, on Wednesday as part of the platform’s continued international rollout of original content for its paid subscription offering.

Thousands of music videos on YouTube have been unblocked in Germany. But that doesn't mean every artist is getting paid or that the "not available" messages will disappear. User, artists and music ...

YouTube has been fined more than $100,000 by a German court over the removal of a video showing a protest against COVID-19 restrictions. The Higher Regional Court of Dresden handed YouTube a fine of ...

On a Monday evening in early April 2020, around 1,000 users are waiting for a YouTube livestream, hosted by Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of the Dresden-based protest movement ‘Patriotic Europeans against ...

Russia has threatened to block YouTube unless the Google-owned video service restores two German-language channels managed by Russia’s state media company RT that were deleted after they published ...