[IP] more on C-Span Sends Take-Downs to YouTube, Allows Google (after $$$)

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Henrik Brameus <blondino@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2006 5:35:59 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: 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 Dinner
> nine days ago has already created a debate over politics, the press  
> and
> humor. Now, a commercial rivalry has broken out over its rebroadcast.
>
>
> Pool photo by Roger L. Wollenberg
>
> Stephen 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 and
> ifilm.com, demanding that the clips of the speech be taken off  
> their Web
> sites. The action was a first for C-Span, whose prime-time schedule
> tends to feature events like Congressional hearings on auto fuel- 
> economy
> standards.
>
> "We have had other hot — I hate to use that word — videos that  
> generated
> a 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 at
> YouTube — where 41 clips of the speech had been viewed a total of 2.7
> million times in less than 48 hours, according to the site — there  
> were
> rumblings 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, not
> a 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  
> that
> Google 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, said
> officials there were stung by C-Span's behavior, because, she said,  
> the
> site 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 the
> clip that Google Video eventually made. "Google will stop at  
> nothing to
> try to win over the community," she said.
>
> NOAM COHEN
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/rsze3>
> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
>
>
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