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Warner Opens Video Library To YouTube
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."
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
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In which case I'd expect them to be very keen for youtube to distribute them.
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... one giant leap for musickind.
An article on YRO that's actually a positive piece of news.
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Hey a music company that finally gets "it" :)
Rod Serling must be rolling over in his grave.
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Thats what they were before the RIAA found out they could not only make money through them by increasing exposure, but by charging for the actual video itself!
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.
This could be a major step change in the way media companies handle the internet. Holding onto copyright and soaking consumers each time the formats change has been lucrative for a while now but it's as obsolete a business model as buying caned food and then using the shop's can opener to get at it before taking the cans home. After failing to produce a DRM system that works, failing to stop the tide of piracy with law suits and faced with falling sales Warner is making the smart move and getting what money it can. More power to their elbow.
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woohoo!
If I understand right, Fox bought Myspace and YouTube, or Myspace bought YouTube and Fox bought Myspace or some damn thing. Point is, what is Fox going to do with its collection of media. Follow the lead of Warner I hope. And why did Warner deal with YouTube instead of rolling out it's own service (lots of eyeballs good for media companies) or partnering with Google's video service or buy something like Blip.tv.
[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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It's almost like a Creative Commons license with a catch. For Warner to agree to this will cause the rest of the media robber barrons to either follow suit or have their catalogs decimated by compared lack of popularity.
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.
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True North Records has been uploading many videos, with more coming. Warner is not the first.
Will it be the kind that Firefox+Adblock can block :)
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or will it be the kind that annoys you for 30 seconds at the beginning of each clip
Only if you want people to listen to the music. Universal have taken a different approach, they feel that if no-one hears the music then no-one will pirate it.
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How do you know which artists are under which label, if you want to stay away from one and listen to the other?
Prelinger Archives is going to be posted on youtube too! Youtube is growing like crazy!!!!
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So, if Universal will still have its way, this is just an empty gesture (since prompt removal won't be enough for them).
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Absolutely. However, the part that I find most interesting is this:
> 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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It's a nice step in the right direction, but remember one thing: music videos are supposed to be adverts for the artists and songs that they feature.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
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1. Shock(!!!); especially while offending established institutions that provide many with much comfort in their droll day-to-day lives.
2. Reap global media exposure as a result.
3. Profit$$$!
There's nothing like cornering a niche market; that few others will choose for themselves. But then there's always the question of... what's next?
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I don't want to crap in anyone's Monday morning cornflakes, but could this possibly have negative impacts on Youtube as we know it? It's fairly easy to extract the FLV file from Youtube's streaming player, I think there's even a Firefox plugin. The FLV can then be converted to whatever clean video format you like, and archived for offline use. If Warner gets tied up with Youtube will they be okay with that, or will they perhaps force Youtube to "upgrade" to something with DRM?
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Bah! The only thing I'm interested in is if Warner Bros. would put up their entire library of classic cartoon in all of their *unedited* pureness. Oh, Warner music...
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Never thought I'd say "I told you so!" this fast!
Universal have taken a different approach, they feel that if no-one hears the music then no-one will pirate it.
Which is a refreshing change from making content which is so bad that nobody wants to pirate it.
Warner is leaving you standing still in the race to embrace the internet.
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On the other hand, it means we could potentially drown them under so much noise that they remove this silly restriction. I wouldn't exactly trust a music exec to have his finger on the pulse of the interweb.
That move makes sense. YouTube gets to offer the content, and in exchange, Warner gets advertisement revenue. It's like TV, really.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Are songs just adverts for the band?
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Just in case you were serious: come on, man. This is Warner not Mother Tereza. They don't hold hands and chant in the CEO's office.
Since there's this little complication about them having to make money to survive, grow..etc maybe it's not too harsh that they gave out every video in their archive in exchange for a little advertising.
Heck, maybe now I'll even look at the ads.
Must be quaking in their boots.
Oh, right, nevermind. I'm just showing my age...they never show videos anymore anyway.
that was the cool idea of it all, to earn money by selling adverts! Hmmm, this is more or less what google's business plan is based on as well.
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Now if only Warner Bros. Pictures would stop throwing hissy fits about classic WB cartoon shorts that have entered the public domain showing up on YouTube. Almost every Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon short made before 1948 entered the public domain because of copyright technicalities not followed by Associated Artists Productions in the 1950s. However, Time-Warner raised a ruckus about their presence on the site, and YouTube pulled all of them. Copyright has been renewed on the versions of the shorts that were restored for the cartoon DVDs. However, the original versions of the shorts are still in the public domain. Oh well, some of them are still up on Archive.Org.
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Now if only they could mix this with the create-your-own-station technology of Pandora ( http://www.pandora.com/ ) in a way that I could turn it on full-screen (silent ads at bottom fine) on my HTPC-- I'd use it. Probably a lot.
Warner also giving RIAA the digital finger
-- I am the NRA, enough said...
and this has a chance. Sure, we'd all like TV without the commercials (get TiVo) or watch movies at a theatre without commercials (good luck, try art films) or other means where content can be free. It can be free. But let's say you control a huge asset-returning portfolio of investments and need a method to spread content but not rob investors or artists. This is one (albeit rudimentary and immature) model. And it's a bold first step. More will come. Then it'll get better. Music can be free. But the brittle methods that have been used to sign, control, and distribute artist's content is due for a revamp. This is a step over the line. A big step, and that's why it's a good one. More will come as everyone tries to outdo each other. At some point, content models start to change. This is one domino in a long chain that need to fall. I'll take the one.
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What does the independent music artist (or video creator) get? Is YouTube gonna share ad revenue with the rest of us, or do only major labels play the licensed distribution game? Seems a bit unfair to me.
...not enough of you will will listen to this advise I am afraid. Unless there are hidden catches, WMG may have just saved itself from extinction.
And don't forget folks, we are still BOYCOTTING the RIAA! Please don't take advantage of WMG's apparent lapse of insanity by gleefully uploading/downloading these YouTubed vids. (Thus, giving the RIAA lots of money.)
*sigh*
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A company that gives away their shit for free is one that "gets it"?
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Warners is trying to get more out of Youtube by getting ad revenues from films that they have in the vault. Universal is yelping 'mine, mine, mine' and sitting on their films....collecting dust. Apparently they want to get 50,000 from the one person, rather than 10 cents (each) from the 10 million. Yeah, thats a good idea. The only other question is: Youtube has a maximum film-time length of 10 minutes. Many of Warners films are longer than this. Will YouTube only be putting out Warner films that are less than 10 minutes, or will they truncate any that are over 10 minutes to exactly 10 minutes, or, will they let them run full length (hour, hour and a half)?
Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman said: "Consumer-empowering destinations like YouTube have created a two-way dialogue that will transform entertainment and media forever."
Welcome to the Internet.
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