One point nobody has mentioned is that it isn't *all* copyrighted material on YouTube that PRS wants increased fees for.

It's what they call "premium content", which is only the stuff by the highest-profile, most profitable, best-paid artists, like official promos by Sony. People like Jim Maclean would get not a cent of the extra money.

The PRS is doing nothing to get more income for the small fry out of YouTube.