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A.P. Exec Doesn't Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:11:55 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Kevin G. Barkes" <kgbarkes () gmail com> Date: April 9, 2009 1:16:57 PM EDT To: <dave () farber net>Subject: A.P. Exec Doesn't Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos
Reply-To: <kgbarkes () gmail com> Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.'s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received acease-and-desist letter from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.'s official Youtube channel on its Website.
You cannot make this stuff up. Forget for a moment that WTNQ is itself an
A.P. affiliate and that the A.P. shouldn't be harassing its own members.Apparently, nobody told the A.P. executive that the august news organization even has a YouTube channel which the A.P. itself controls, and that someone
at the A.P. decided that it is probably a good idea to turn on the videoembedding function on so that its videos can spread virally across the Web,
along with the ads in the videos.Frank Strovel, an employee at the radio station who tried to talk some sense
into the A.P. executive Twittered yesterday:I was on the phone arguing w/ AP today. We were embedding their YouTube vids
on our station's site. We're an AP affiliate. And then added:They asked us to taken them down. I asked, "Why do you have a YouTube page
w/ embed codes for websites?" Still. they said NO. The story was picked up by the Knoxville News, and then by a local videoproducer Christian Grantham, who captured the following Skype interview with
Strovel in the video below (which is not an A.P. video, so I am going to embed it). Strovel notes that the A.P. accused the station of "stealingtheir licensed content." He sounds flumoxed, as he should be. This back and
forth during the interview says it all:# Strovel: And we're an A.P. affiliate for crying out loud! I stumped him on
that one. . . . What is really shocking is that they were shocked thatthey've got a YouTube channel that people are embedding on their Websites.
He seemed shocked by that. 'Oh, I am going to have to look into that" is what he told me. Grantham: What an idiot! Strovel: I know, I know. Strovel had to pull down all the videos from his Website. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/08/ap-exec-doesnt-know-it-has-a-youtube-ch annel-threatens-affiliate-for-embedding-videos/ Regards, KGB ----- Kevin G. Barkes Email: kgbarkes () yahoo com KGB Report: http://www.kgbreport.com Commentwear by KGB: http://www.commentwear.com National Temperature Index: http://nationaltemperatureindex.com DCL Dialogue on line: http://www.dcldialogue.com Random Quotations Generator: http://www.goodquotations.com Over 13,000 searchable quotations. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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