Universal Somewhat Vid Friendly (On Youtube, At Least)

[bstro.livejournal.com]

So, I found this rather interesting. On a mailing list I'm on, another member posted an e-mail he'd just gotten from Youtube. The gist of it was that their filtering system figured out that one of his videos uses music owned by UMG (Universal Music Group).

The kicker is this: The message also said that the video would stay put because UMG has an agreement with Youtube to allow users to upload videos that have UMG-owned music. The catch is that Youtube will forward to UMG the video's view stats (big deal) and that the video's page will have ads (I presume for UMG -- again, big deal).

Maybe this is old news for some of you, 'cause I did a guick Google and found this press release from 2006 that implies such an agreement.

So...if you want to upload vids to Youtube and not have to worry about them yanking them, you're probably safe using something from UMG. Granted, I don't suppose the same is true for their film division.

Comments

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Youtbue has entered into a few agreements with the record companies. a few other vidders also received similar notices.

[jadedmidnight.livejournal.com]

I've received tons of those for vids that I already had up. I recently received one for a vid that I just uploaded a few days ago too. It's no big deal. All they do is stick an ad on your page and that's all the involvement that you ever see from them. Sure, they can check your stats and whatnot, but like you said, big deal.

[celtic-luna.livejournal.com]

NBC Universal actually blocked one of my vids, but i guess i dont mind so much it had been up for over a year
however yes UMG noticed two of my others vids and they are leaving those two alone except for the ad's

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Did they happen to say why they blocked it?

[celtic-luna.livejournal.com]

not really this is as close to a reason i got

Copyright owner: NBC Universal
Content claimed: Some or all of the visual content
Policy: Block this content.
Applies to these locations:
Everywhere