Since 2009, many major musicians' videos have been unavailable on YouTube in Germany, thanks to a music rights organization called the Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA). The dark era is finally coming to an end: After seven long years, YouTube announced that it's struck an agreement with GEMA to allow users in Germany to view videos from its catalog without any fuss. The state-authorized collecting society represents thousands of musicians in Germany as well as millions of international copyright holders. It demanded a fee per video stream from Google to compensate artists, but negotiations repeatedly fell through. YouTube…
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