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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:17:04 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Henrik Brameus <blondino () gmail com> Date: May 10, 2006 5:35:59 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] C-Span Sends Take-Downs to YouTube, Allows Google (after $$$)
Dave, Worth noting is that a sligtly shorter version (16:14) of the clip is also available on MSN video. It appears to come from MSNBC, and doesn't even have the C-SPAN logo on the clip.(http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=99d1656c-c505-4409-9044- a5ece808904f&f=&fg=copy).
Regards, Henrik On 5/10/06, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: May 9, 2006 12:32:40 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] C-Span Sends Take-Downs to YouTube, Allows Google (after $$$) Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This item comes from reader Randall. DLH] From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: May 9, 2006 9:24:02 AM PDT To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Subject: C-Span Sends Take-Downs to YouTube, Allows Google (after $$$) <http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=324288> (with links) Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 12:04 AM EDT Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents Dinnernine days ago has already created a debate over politics, the press andhumor. Now, a commercial rivalry has broken out over its rebroadcast. Pool photo by Roger L. WollenbergStephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington.On Wednesday, C-Span, the nonprofit network that first showed Mr. Colbert's speech, wrote letters to the video sites YouTube.com andifilm.com, demanding that the clips of the speech be taken off their Websites. The action was a first for C-Span, whose prime-time scheduletends to feature events like Congressional hearings on auto fuel- economystandards."We have had other hot — I hate to use that word — videos that generateda lot of buzz," said Rob Kennedy, executive vice president of C-Span, which was founded in 1979. "But this is the first time it has occurred since the advent of the video clipping sites."After the clips of Mr. Colbert's performance were ordered taken down atYouTube — where 41 clips of the speech had been viewed a total of 2.7million times in less than 48 hours, according to the site — there wererumblings on left-wing sites that someone was trying to silence a man who dared to speak truth to power.But as became clear later in the week, this was a business decision, nota political one. Not only is the entire event available to be streamed at C-Span's Web site, c-span.org, but the network is selling DVD's of the event for $24.95, including speeches and a comedy routine by President Bush with a President Bush imitator.And C-Span gave permission to Google Videos to carry the Colbert speech beginning Friday. The arrangement, which came with the stipulation thatGoogle Videos provide the entire event and a clip of Mr. Bush's entire routine as well, is a one-time deal. Peter Chane, senior product manager of Google Video, said "C-Span has some very, very unique content," adding that "online is really great distribution outlet." But Julie Supan, senior director for marketing at YouTube, saidofficials there were stung by C-Span's behavior, because, she said, thesite had helped fuel momentum for the Colbert clip."This was an exciting moment for them in a viral, random way," she said."To take it down from one site and uploading on another, it is perplexing." She also noted that YouTube had tried to make a similar deal for theclip that Google Video eventually made. "Google will stop at nothing totry to win over the community," she said. NOAM COHEN <http://tinyurl.com/rsze3> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as blondino () gmail com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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