The realization that his company was not getting paid for music videos shown on Yahoo led Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris to pull all of Universal's videos from the Web portal until it agreed to a licensing deal in 2005. He wrangled similar arrangements from AOL and other Internet portals as part of his unrelenting campaign to generate more revenue for Universal. Morris' get-paid mantra has cast him as a champion in the eyes of many people in the industry -- and a bully among others.
January 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris resents that MTV and other cable music channels built multibillion-dollar businesses around videos given away by record companies anxious to promote their artists.
So when he saw his own grandson watching 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” video on Yahoo, it got him asking: “How much are we getting paid for that?”
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