Fox in a Box Posted 22 October 2006 Share Posted 22 October 2006 To the admin staff at FOXESTALK --------- Be careful what is posted!! YouTube YouTube users now watch more than 100m clips per day An independent website has been told to stop putting footage of FA Premiership goals on the video website YouTube. (I bet this will happen with our other leagues soon) NetResult - a firm monitoring the internet on behalf of the Premier League - emailed a warning to the website, 101greatgoals.blogspot.com. It told the website it was "infringing" Premier League copyright. Links from 101greatgoals to YouTube were thought to have been disabled by YouTube itself but other links to Premiership goals stayed in place. Barrage of lawsuits The news comes after the video-sharing service wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers found 29,549 music video, movie and TV clips had been posted without permission. YouTube, which was launched in February 2005 and shows about 100 million clips per day, was recently bought by search giant Google for $1.65bn (£883m). Critics of the deal have warned Google could face a barrage of lawsuits over copyrighted material on YouTube. YouTube mostly hosts homemade videos, however, it also contains clips of copyrighted material. It has recently signed distribution deals with media groups including Universal Music Group, Warner Music and CBS to offer short-form programming including news, music videos, sport and entertainment. The BBC is currently prohibited from showing footage of Premier League goals on its website. But from next season Match Of The Day and MOTD2 will be streamed on broadband as simulcasts with the TV programmes for UK users - meaning all the Premiership goals will be available online for the first time in the UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6072266.stm http://www.copyrightcontrol.com/08_ambush_marketing.php NETRESULT above! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Honcho Posted 22 October 2006 Share Posted 22 October 2006 This was obviously going to happen. The problem is policing it. I can't see how youtube are going to monitor every upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookwhaticando Posted 22 October 2006 Share Posted 22 October 2006 This was obviously going to happen. The problem is policing it. I can't see how youtube are going to monitor every upload. Being owned by Google, they'll soon have enough employees that can help police things. Another alternative is to just pay viewing members of the YouTube community say $1 for every copyright infringing video they come across and report. You'd soon have plenty of unofficial policemen wandering around the website searching for the copyrighted stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Me Posted 23 October 2006 Share Posted 23 October 2006 This is ridiculous. How can you copyright a goal - given the quality of what you can see on YouTube I think it's way over the top. In mnay ways it's benefical for clubs, the FA and the leagues themselves to have this kind of content freely available - it encourages kids to get into football, if you put a price tag on everything you'll eventually find noone is interested anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Don Posted 23 October 2006 Share Posted 23 October 2006 I can't see foxes talk beeing sued over this, they aren't the ones putting things on their site, they just have a link to youtube that has got them on. Its youtubes prob, not ours, the people who watch it. Anyone got the goals from sat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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