Garth: YouTube Is
The Devil

Artist manager Irving Azoff, who has established the Global Music Rights venture, has threatened to remove artist music from YouTube because it has not obtained public performance licenses from GMR, which has exclusive rights to that music.

To that effect, GMR’s attorney, Howard King, sent a letter to YouTube general counsel Kent Walker saying YouTube has failed to comply with demands to stop performing 20,000 songs.

GMR says YouTube needs to provide a valid license proving it can use the material.

Meanwhile, Garth Brooks says he supports fellow country superstars Taylor Swift and Jason Aldean in their decisions to pull their songs from Spotify.

In an interview with Access Hollywood, Brooks said nice people work at YouTube but they’re “the devil.”

“People get millions and millions and millions of views and they don’t get squat. Trust me,” he said. “You can’t get out of it. I had a sweet meeting with them. They were all fired up. They were the sweetest and they’re all like 12 (years old). They’re so young, and I said, ‘I’ve just got the first question: ‘How do you get out?’ Silence. You don’t.”