Financial details of the agreement are not being made public, but the deal covers all of Buma/Stemra's repertoire contained in any professional or user-generated video hosted on and streamed via YouTube in the Netherlands, including embedded content.

Buma/Stemra chairman Cees Vervoord says as a result of the agreement the songwriters, composers and music publishers represented by the organisation will be rewarded when their music is used on YouTube.

"It's important that the people who create music - the writers and ...