Broadcasters strike back

Posted by Zoe Smith on 22 February 2006 at 16:00
Tags: Newspapers

Following on from last week’s comment, it looks like media owners are beginning to take notice of the fact that lots their archives are being made available on www.Youtube.com.

Founded in February 2005, by early commerce pioneers of PayPal, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. Prior to YouTube, there was no easy way for individuals to share video on the Web. Dealing with hundreds of multimedia formats, massive file sizes and difficult uploading methods made sharing personal video clips on the Web a daunting task for even the most tech savvy individual.

CNet reports that US broadcaster NBC has kindly requested that the site pull several classic skits from Saturday Night Live as well as numerous over programmes. How many other broadcasters will follow suit? While a quick search through the content throws up 280 results for NBC, the BBC has a whopping 380 ranging from an interview with Noam Chomsky to the hideously scary mutating faces ad. Surely Aunty can’t be best pleased about possible copyright concerns.

Tags: Newspapers