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."
Um, aren't music videos just adverts for the band? (Score:5, Interesting)
Yup.. (Score:2, Interesting)
I wonder what MTV would say if studio asked for an enomorous amount of money to be able to show their videos, instead of throwing it at MTV to get more air time.
What about Fox? (Score:4, Interesting)
[tinfoil hat]I think something might be going on here[/tinfoil hat]
Yeah, I know it's Warner music and Fox is mostly non music, but still they have gots ons of stuff rotting away in vaults somewhere, you would think earning something from it would be easier than trying to sue/arrest/pester/etc. people for distributing stuff no longer on the air.
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Could this be bad? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:They will remove offensive video clips. (Score:4, Interesting)
Korean morality ( Those stuffy Christians over there shouldn't have fetishes! )
Racism ( I won't even repeat the claims. )
etc
The fun part is youtube has more and more non-english content. I've started to notice Flicker has several Japanese only comments too. I remember when "we lost Orkut" happened, and everyone should know why that happened. Orkut was a closed invite system. The population that invited the most could reach a critical mass with their language, and drown out the rest. Thankfully these newer web sites are open, so you can see various languages mixing. I find it refreshing to see several languages in one thread, and translations for the non native speakers of the videos / photos.
Re:Hidden Clause (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Huzzah, a media company that gets it (Score:3, Interesting)