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YouTube blocks music videos to UK users

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco and Tim Bradshaw in London

Published: March 9 2009 18:19 | Last updated: March 10 2009 02:04

YouTube has begun blocking music videos to UK users following a failure to reach agreement with PRS for Music on a new royalties deal.

YouTube said it was being asked to pay an amount to the collecting agency for writers, composers and publishers that was “many, many more times higher than under the previous agreement”.

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