http://news.com.com/EMI+courts+YouTube+to+help+fight+pirates/2100-1026_3-6083930.htmlLAGUNA BEACH, Calif.--Record label EMI Music Publishing is talking to YouTube, Revver and other video upload sites about alliances that would help it monitor and curtail misuse of its copyrights--and loss of advertising or download sales--from unauthorized music videos that are posted to their sites.
"We're actively trying to strike relationships (with user-generated video sites) for the showing of our music videos," Thomas Ryan, EMI Music's senior vice president of digital and mobile strategy, said Wednesday here at the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit, a three-day confab of investors and Internet executives.
Record label EMI hopes to form alliances with video upload sites like YouTube and Revver to curtial copyright infringements.
Bottom line:
Although they seem like strange bedfellows, EMI says working together with digital tracking technology could protect copyrights--and its own revenue stream.
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"It's our hope that those commercial relationships will help us remove infringing material that someone uploaded and we're not being compensated for," Ryan said during a panel discussion about online entertainment.
Ryan said EMI is interested in protecting video produced by the label, or video produced by someone else but which infringes on its intellectual property--for example, someone lip-syncing a protected song or who has remixed a music video clip. One solution to the problem is digital tracking technology.Article has more.
But maybe if Warner Bros and other companies did a little something called SELLING VIDEOS, we'd buy them? I've seen no compilations of 80s videos, B-52s, or much anything out there. I've bought what I've found, but there's precious little. There's more to this wretched market than the "lowest common denominator" filth...
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