YouTube’s library of licensed music just got a whole lot bigger thanks to a new deal with Merlin, the world’s fifth largest music label after Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group.  Merlin represents 14,000 artists including Aphex Twin and The Prodigy and now, when YouTubers upload videos with music from Merlin artists, instead of having the soundtrack removed from the video, the artists will receive royalties.


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