Would seem to weaken the case for any DRM - especially as the Beeb appears to be condoning "independent" use of its material:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6411017.stm <<The corporation will also get a share of the advertising revenue generated by traffic to the new YouTube channels.>> <<Mr Highfield said the BBC would not be hunting down all BBC-copyrighted clips already uploaded by YouTube members - although it would reserve the right to swap poor quality clips with the real thing, or to have content removed that infringed other people's copyright, like sport, or that had been edited or altered in a way that would damage the BBC's brand. "We don't want to be overzealous, a lot of the material on YouTube is good promotional content for us," he said. >> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Crossland Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:23 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC on YouTube On 02/03/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Might interest some people here. Wow - awesome! Great to see the BBC providing footage in non-DRM formats! Congratulations! The Gnash project (http://gnash.lulu.com) is about to get flash video playback working, so the obstacle to free software presented by YouTube is about to be over. The Gnash player will be inside embedded devices like the OpenMoko mobile phone, and supporting this project is important right now :-) I hope in the future this grows from short clips, that lead to the DRM-infected iPlayer, into full shows. -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
