Today here in the Netherlands a new plan was announced to let commercial websites pay for embedding music video's, for example from YouTube. Also you have to buy a license if you have a radio portal, ringtone site, downloadsite etc. The organization responsible for these new rules could even send bills to individual bloggers at home, but this is not a priority. Companies are targeted first. It goes further, a profile on a social network with a embedded music video could also be charged, but here the social network itself could get the bill, IF it all goes through. If a company gets charged they have the chance to remove the video's first.

I was wondering if there are other countries where you have to pay for embedding music video's etc, company or individual.

Some prices, on a yearly basis. You pay the license every year.

6 embedded videos – 130 euro
12 embedded videos – 260 euro
30 embedded videos – 650 euro

Here's the announcement: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/artikel/42556997

And a sad joke http://inlog.org/2009/10/01/this-post-will-cost-us-650-euro

Buma/Stemra prices (english): http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/OverBumaStemra/Actueel/rateswebcasts.htm

Thanks Jérôme!

Today two plugins are launched to block the webcrawler from Buma/Stemra.

<<That’s why I started developing the Block Buma Crawler WordPress plugin (aka Teezir Blocker). This plugin is capable of keeping computers outside of your WordPress installation, that are blacklisted via this plugin.>>

Plugin Wordpress
http://coenjacobs.net/blog/steps-blocking-buma-crawlers-wordpress

Plugin Drupal
http://bler.webschuur.com/bs_blocker

List of IP-adresses
http://github.com/berkes/BS-Blocker/blob/master/ip-addresses.txt