What is so important about the content/metadata ingest and delivery system that is the iPlayer that it needs to be licenced as opposed to being developed in-house at a broadcaster?
--- On Tue, 20/10/09, David Tomlinson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Tomlinson <[email protected]> > Subject: [backstage] FYI: Open iPlayer > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009, 6:59 PM > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/bbc_trust_rejects_iplayer_federation/ > > The BBC Trust has shelved a plan that would have allowed > broadcasters such as Channel 4, ITV and Five to share the > Beeb's iPlayer. > > The so-called "Open iPlayer" project was meant to establish > a new commercial service separate from BBC Worldwide, that > would licence the Corporation's hugely popular > video-on-demand technology to third parties. > > "We concluded that the open iPlayer plans in their proposed > form, combining both commercial and public service elements, > were too complicated," said BBC Trustee Diane Coyle in a > statement today. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/october/open_iplayer.shtml > > "The Trust is open to considering an alternative proposal > for the licensing of the iPlayer technology to third parties > if that can be done on a simple, fair and commercial basis," > said Coyle. > > > - > 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/[email protected]/ > - 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/[email protected]/
