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Warner Music Videos Heading Back to YouTube

By BRIAN STELTER, NEW YORK TIMES

Ending a nine-month standoff, YouTube said on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the Warner Music Group that would return the label’s music videos to the video Web site.

Warner Music had demanded that its videos be removed last December after licensing talks stalled with YouTube, a unit of Google. The deal means YouTube has agreements in place with the country’s four major record labels and four major publishers.

As it did in its previous deal, YouTube will share advertising revenue with Warner. But the terms of the new deal are believed to be more advantageous for the music label, although the companies refused to comment on the terms or the details of the negotiations.

Chris Maxcy, the head of music partnerships at YouTube, said in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that the new deal “represents many months of hard work between both companies.” YouTube’s sheer size — it is responsible for 40 percent of all online video views, according to ComScore — makes it a destination for music video viewing, but Warner and others want that viewing to happen on their own terms. Joining a growing number of other media companies, Warner is choosing to control the advertising sales for its videos on YouTube.

For YouTube, agreements with music companies are important as it tries to secure revenue from professional video streams.

YouTube said it expected the Warner Music channels to be back online by the end of the year.

Poem: Risking It All
Written by: Marcus Williams

Risking it all,
fear, love, joy, creativity, open, closed, resentment,
pain, death, survival, what does it all mean?
I been scared for longtime,
scared to open up, share my real feelings,
my hopes, dreams, emotions, my beauty, wisdom and self-expression,
for the fear of not be accepted for being different, thinking different,
feeling possible guilt for being honest,
of what might happen if i do, not really focusing on what has or is happening
to me, denying who I am, which is not just what’s on the surface,
I am truly deep, my depth reaches the bottom darkness of the deep blue sea,
but my time, is changing, my current is turning, my season is changing
its turnover season, where my deepest love, fears and truths
which lie beneath this surface,
are coming up and out and the mask I wear and ego is fading away,
so that the spirit of god, will shine before you,
revealing all my individual, heavenly glory is the biggest and
only true risk of risking it all,
by bearing my all,
is for you and the world to see me…the real me

2009 Copyright Marcus Williams

Poem: I Love You God
Written by: Marcus Williams

I love you god,
because you show up in the most meaningful and oddest ways,
I love you god,
because, you cause me to feel deeply,
to have compassion for those who suffer,
to savor moments of laughter,
to realize that life is here, only here in the now,
not in the past, or future now-here,
I love you god,
because together we have created a beautiful child,
who shining heart, immense loving energy,
inpires the curiosity and childlike which is still,
and always will be in me,
I love you god,
because when I die, I hope those who love me, cherish me
will realize I am ending a plentiful life here,
and beginning a meaningful journey elsewhere,
I love you god,
for making me see, truly see the beauty of life within me,
and all there is which surrounds me,
there is an abundance, and I am grateful for that,
I love you god,
because when I say that to myself,
you respond back saying, “I love you too.”

2009 Copyright Marcus Williams