Thursday, February 8, 2007

NBC-YouTube Rift?

Reports have been circling this week that Jeff Zucker, the brand new chief executive of NBC Universal, is angry at YouTube for not implementing the promised copyright protection software soon enough. If YouTube can remove porn and hate speech so efficiently, he asks, why not copyrighted material? Viacom also has concerns about copyright protection and revenue sharing - they pulled 100,000 clips last week.