"Take It to the Limit", the entire Hotel California album - you won't find the album versions on YouTube *at all*. Only a few tracks from the Eagles' Very Best compilation are available including "Take It Easy", "Peaceful Easy Feeling", and "Already Gone". In contrast, most songs with Henley on the songwriting credits aren't available. Henley has made his dislike for YouTube known as far back as 2010 (before YouTube got into the music business not just with music videos but formally licensed songs like the one you posted).

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Word on the Tube is that Henley is still jealous of Meisner's superior vocal talent.

But, it's no fun turning on the TV and hearing one of your pieces being used in commercials.

Senate Judiciary subcommittee run by Republicans and they are devoting their time to this petty shit.

stifle the internet.

Then he made money again when everything was re-released to CD. Then he made money again when songs were streamed from online music stores. I understand that artists should be paid for their work, but come on man.

The internet has changed it. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle.

Still gigging and not because they actually love it. They have to.

Streaming services (and youtube) pay as little as .0001 per play. You can have a million plays and barely get $50. Streaming cuts into sales badly so artists make very little. Plus radio play is way down, so revenue from that source is down also. And the idea that a musician should be able to earn a living off of their work seems to be foreign to American minds.

I get a spread sheet of world wide streaming sales and the total revenue is laughable even though songs are played around the world and on four streaming services. But the streaming services are making piles on the backs of the artists. I'm glad he is standing up for this. It's about time we started getting paid for our work.

laws further as those laws have already been altered enough imo.

It never would have occurred to me that I could make a billion dollars by providing a platform for blatant copyright infringement - I certainly could have foreseen that a site like that would be very popular (Hey - come to my site and listen to hit songs and watch movies for FREE!) but I also would have assumed I would have been sued into oblivion.

Artists should be paid for their work, and he's doing this more for new ones coming up than himself. He certainly doesn't need the money. This has been a cause for him for a long time.

which is the NAME of the law that Henley testified about. As basic as AP journalism is, at least they could've included that!

To read Henley's testimony in full via the US Senate website: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Henley%20Testimony.pdf

Section 512 of the DMCA, which the hearing was about: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

An intellectual property blog's more detailed analysis of the hearing: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2020/06/02/senate-ip-subcommittee-hearing-dmca-reform-grand-bargain-no-longer-working/id=122124/

Have we forgotten 1980 when he was caught with an overdosed 16 year old girl???