 Why does Germany block 61% of YouTube and how do you get the Germans to watch your videos? Let's find out on today's episode of The George Show. This is actually a follow-up to the new YouTube music policies video that I made yesterday. Click that I up there in case you haven't seen it because this is part two of that video. The reason why 61.5% of the 1,000 most viewed YouTube clips are blocked in Germany is because of GEMMA. What is GEMMA? According to the Wikipedia article, GEMMA is the Performing Rights Organization in Germany that administers music and copyright. And according to a German court, there is an ongoing dispute with YouTube and GEMMA that is preventing YouTube from playing videos that GEMMA administers in the country. Now, the link to this article is down there in the description below if you want to read the whole thing. But the key points are that YouTube has already entered into 20 agreements with 33, or sorry, 20 agreements with collection societies from 33 countries. And GEMMA is one of the last few remaining who chooses to do a legal, to pursue legal proceedings instead of negotiating. And YouTube, of course, is prepared to resume negotiations at any time. So we're just waiting on GEMMA to wake up. Apparently, GEMMA has not yet understood the new developments in the international market, according to Frank Briegman, who's the president of Universal Music Germany. How can the Germans watch your videos? Well, the Wikipedia article has a circumventions section at the end, which talk about the common ways that people can get around to viewing blocked videos in Germany. So I encourage you to read that and communicate that to your audience if you feel a lot of Germans are missing out on your great content. So it's an interesting concept. But how does that affect you? Well, in yesterday's video, I talked about this, the new music policy section of your Creator Studio, where you can now use professional music like Gungnams style in your videos. Now you will lose monetization, so don't, you know, make sure you understand that. But in this case, Gungnams style is viewable worldwide, including Germany, because GEMMA has no rights on Gungnams style. It's a Korean music label that released it. And here it is. Let me play a short clip because it's allowed. Okay. Now, Gungnams style is actually the most viewed video in all of YouTube. Currently, it is sitting at 2.5 billion views. That video has made over $2 million to YG Entertainment. One video, $2 million. Pretty impressive. And you can use that music in your videos. Now, you won't make $2 million if you get 2 million views, but you will get views and potentially grow your audience from that. What is the second most viewed video in the world that is blocked in Germany, sadly, and that is Baby by Justin Bieber? Let's listen to that in case you haven't heard of this song before. Just a clip. Okay. You get the idea. So the way you find out which music is available in which countries and which can be used in your videos is by going to this music policies page. Some of you have asked, how will this help me get more views? So GamerDudes said, although he asked, how does it help to actually get views at all? Maybe it does make the video seem more professional, although from what I've seen, no offense to any of these channels, there are so many little channels that do not edit sometimes at all, do not commentate well at all and overall need work on their content. Okay. So the answer to that was also given in the comments by Barklord. So Barklord wrote 15 hours ago, George, thanks so much for the tip. This is yesterday's video about the music policies. I have for so long wanted to make an epic montage using the Ed Sheeran song, I See Fire, which is now available for use. Let's make sure it is. So I See Fire by Ed Sheenan Sheeran is available everywhere except Germany, of course, Germany. And Barklord said, he's now a paramedic in real life and this video Horror of War was close to his heart. He should check it out. Let's check it out, Freedom Family. What did Barklord do with this song? And did he do a good job? So here is the song. Here is his video. As you can see, it's monetized by Universal Music Group. By the way, how do we get this information monetized by Universal Music Group? It's a feature of Heartbeat. Don't know what Heartbeat is, just click that I up there and that'll take you to information about Heartbeat or you could just go to www.heartbeat.tm and click Get This App. So this video is monetized by Universal Music Group because he used a copyright song, so he's not making any money off of it, but Barkley did create this video. Let's have a peek. Okay, and if you want to see this video, click the link down there in the video description to watch the whole video by Barkley. And that is an example of how you can use the professional music to really spice up your videos, do something you've always wanted to do using a featured popular song from the radio or you've seen on television, and just make sure to search the Music Policies page for your rights because some of these songs, like many from one direction, are simply not allowed to be used in YouTube videos and if you try to use it, you will get a strike. And speaking of strikes, there's also the concern that the rights holder may change their policy in the future and videos that are okay to use now may get strikes in the future. That is a risk you run by using the music in the professional music catalog and it doesn't happen often, but it can happen. So you have to judge whether it's worth the risk. And if you decide it's not worth the risk, that's okay because there are so many alternatives to using the professional music that YouTube now gives you the rights to and that starts with position music. Position music has an exclusive deal with freedom, with you, with me, with us, the freedom family, where we can use everything in the freedom catalog on positionmusic.com. All you need to do is sign in with this shiny freedom button, click it and then you'll be able to sign in with your freedom account and you'll be able to use music from, that's been used in Deadpool. Who saw the new Deadpool movie? I did, although I didn't really like it. It was too corny for me. My wife liked it though. To see all the places, just click placements where position music is used and here you can see all the video games, TV shows, movies, movie trailers where position music has been placed and this is now available for you in your videos for free. You lose no monetization, you don't lose any revenue. What happens is we pay position from the revenue we collect so it doesn't affect your bottom line. It only affects our bottom line if you use music from position music. And as you can see it's been used in The Hobbit, in X-Men, in Avengers, Age of Ultron. Now that was a movie I really did like. Awesome, awesome movie. And it's also used in video games like Call of Duty. Let me scroll down, this is a long list. I think it's still loading. But it's Call of Duty is in here and a few other popular games. So tell me what you think of position music down there in the comments below. In the past we have had some delays in releasing monetization but all of that has been fixed so you can now safely use everything in the Freedom Catalog in the positionmusic.com website for your videos or live streams. I hope this helps. This has been the follow up to the YouTube Music Policies and do you have any other tips to help all of us grow together? Tell us in the comments below because that is the spirit of freedom. We help each other grow together as a family. And who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of this beautiful family called Freedom. You've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom family. You are part of it, we are all part of it and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.