The government's UK copyright law site outlines the IPO and Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the principal legislation covering intellectual property rights in the United Kingdom and the work to which it applies.
I notice that 'ontsofa' are doing well and probably earning quite well from their video
library on Youtube. But is there anything for the performers from Youtube plays? The
affiliate gets paid by Youtube, fair enough, but the artist whose work they're posting may
get a million plays and no dosh as far as I can tell, (unless there's a deal with the
affiliate) which seems not quite right to me.