Warner Opens Video Library To YouTube 84
Oxen writes, "From the article, 'Warner Music has agreed to make its library of music videos available to YouTube, marking the first time that an established record company has agreed to make its content library available to the user-generated media company. Under the agreement, YouTube users will have full access to videos from Warner artists. They will also be permitted to incorporate material from those videos into their own clips, which are then uploaded to YouTube. Warner and YouTube will share advertising revenue sold in connection with the video content.' This is in contrast to how Universal is handling the situation."
Initiative (Score:5, Insightful)
Wait, you mean you can put this media out there online for free and you can still turn a profit? That's insane. That goes against everything I've ever been told by the RIAA & MPAA.
I'm very happy and excited about this. I hope that this turns out to be a lucrative move for Warner and, more importantly, the artists. Sites like Youtube combined with this relatively new kind of business model could represent an alternative for distributing writing, songs & video. It's nice to see a company adapt to the fans instead of forcing it vice versa through thousands of lawsuits.
Uh, yeah, Universal isn't interested in Youtube or MySpace distributing their content
One small step for music company ... (Score:3, Insightful)
At last... (Score:3, Insightful)
Outside, the pigs are flying.
Huzzah, a media company that gets it (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a huge crack in the dike! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not a perfect deal. But it's a huge start. Bravo to the brains that figured this one out. It's a huge first step.
What form of advertising I wonder? (Score:3, Insightful)
or will it be the kind that annoys you for 30 seconds at the beginning of each clip
Re:One small step for music company ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Um, aren't music videos just adverts for the ba (Score:4, Insightful)
> They will also be permitted incorporate material from those videos
> into their own clips, which are then uploaded to YouTube.
It looks like they'll be allowing people to remix videos, and presumably by extension the songs. This is a very big deal indeed, although I'm not sure from the content-free story whether there's some limitation saying that the results can *only* be uploaded to YouTube.
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Re:Huzzah, a media company that gets it (Score:3, Insightful)