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Cut out of the cultural discourse again: "Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights." Even if some may argue that it's not an important public discourse, it's still annoying in principle. (You can still find the video if you look around.)

Really, what's the deal with this? Why is Germany the most problematic in this aspect?

Every country have such organizations but somehow it's always my German contacts to which showing a video becomes an epic poem.

They have rights for "every music", a reversal of the burden of proof and demand ridiculously high royalties from Youtube.

How is someone like Psy even represented by the GEMA?

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