Yahoo chases YouTube with Sony BMG
And plots shackles and filters
YAHOO and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have announced a licencing deal to let Yahoo's users upload clips containing the record company's music and video content.
It's Yahoo's first record company content licencing deal. Sony BMG cut a similar music and video licencing deal with Google, which owns YouTube, last year.
The companies will share advertising revenue, but financial details weren't disclosed.
The deal will reportedly include distribution of Sony BMG content by Yahoo player applications and portable website widgets.
Last month a group of large media and Internet companies reached agreement to require digital restrictions management and filtering of user generated music and video clips.
However, development and implementation of technology needed to make that a reality is still in the future, and that might prove more difficult than the big media suits assume. µ
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sony 'content'? never again !!!
quote:The deal will reportedly include distribution of Sony BMG content by Yahoo player applications and portable website widgets.
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is this 'content' coming with rootkits too ?
i fear that the days when yahoo messenger will install sony rootkits are coming closer and closer :(
PS:
captcha: aokblio ...whatever that means, it sounds funny lol. Looks a bit like "Oblio" ("The Point", 1971)
great...
"Last month a group of large media and Internet companies reached agreement to require digital restrictions management and filtering of user generated music and video clips."So now 'Baby Dancing to Prince's Let's Go Crazy' is going to have DRM and be owned by the Media Maffia...
When you are stealing from them you are just plain stealing their content and must get sued...
When they are stealing from you they get revenue sharing and lock up your created content...