YT may be raking in the big bucks, but they really want to keep it that way; paying out royalties has been a point of contention all over the world; every entertainment and media entity has locked horns with right administrators for decades and its always about divvying up the revenue pie, with each wanting a bigger slice. I don't know what the issues are in the Finland situation, but its a safe bet Teosto is asking for a sharp rise in royalty rates and YT is not keen on the idea; YT may be able to afford a big bump for Teosto, but then every other nationally local rights administrator would want the same and, most likely, much more than Teosto gets, since each believes their 'stable' is far better than anyone else's; that is where it starts to get into real big bites of the pie; the best course, for YT, is to try to mitigate, as much as possible, any domino effect an agreement with Teosto might cause...
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