Viacom Deal Will Allow Its TV Clips on Internet
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The parent of MTV and Comedy Central reached a deal with the upstart Joost, and will get a cut of advertising revenue.
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Google Inc.&#39;s YouTube said  on Monday that it will distribute local television programming  from select Hearst-Argyle Television Inc.-owned stations in a  revenue-sharing agreement, marking the first time the  video-sharing site has paid for local TV content.
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(InfoWorld) - On Friday, media conglomerate Viacom upbraided YouTube for continuing to host throngs of Viacom videos without permission and demanded that over 100,000 of its clips be removed from the popular video-sharing site owned by Google. Viacom, whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures, ran out of patience after months of discussions with Google and YouTube, the company said in a statement. "It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users," the statement reads. YouTube and Google have failed to deliver efficient filtering tools, allowingÂ "vast amounts" of unauthorized Viacom video to exist on the video-sharing site, the company said. YouTube acknowledged receiving a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) request from Viacom to remove the videos. "It's unfortunate that Viacom will no longer be able to benefit from YouTube's passionate audience, which has helped to promote many of Viacom's shows," YouTube said in a statement, adding that it will comply with the request. Viacom's move is the latest from copyright owners who are upset over the unauthorized uploading and streaming of their videos on YouTube, which is one of the most popular Web sites in the world. The copyright issue has long been a known liability for YouTube. Founded in early 2005, YouTube quickly became the world's most popular video-sharing site, beating established players including Yahoo, Microsoft's Internet unit, AOL, and Google. Impressed with that popularity, Google bought YouTube last November for $1.65 billion in an all-stock transaction, but it put 12.5 percent of the amount in an escrow account for one year to "secure certain indemnification obligations," it said. Since the acquisition, Google and YouTube have been busy negotiating with video content owners and developing technology to detect and remove copyrighted videos uploaded by users without permission. Beyond its attempts to strike deals with corporations, Google has recently also indicated its intent to share revenue with individual content owners. It has also begun integrating YouTube with the similar Google Video service. "We're pushing very, very hard for the success of YouTube as a brand. It has tremendous traction with the demographic that we care about. An awful lot of people are now using YouTube every day in their daily lives," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said this week duringÂ the company's quarterly earnings conference call. Schmidt said Google's primary focus with YouTube is user adoption, while it also experiments with advertising models. YouTube is growing its user base and advertising very fast, to the point that it's now clear to Google that the price it paid for YouTube is clearly justified, Schmidt said. In its statement, Viacom precisely complained that Google is benefitting from its content without providing Viacom with adequate compensation. "YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue generated from this practice without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it," Viacom said.
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Yahoo said it had penned an agreement with Current, the current events cable network pioneered by former presidential candidate Al Gore. The deal would bring some of the network's "viewer created content" to Yahoo's video service.
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U.S. media company Viacom Inc. has told YouTube to pull all video clips of its programming, including MTV and Comedy Central, from the Web site, Viacom says.  Viacom said Friday it had failed to reach a distribution deal with YouTube despite months of negotiations.
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.  is expected to announce a licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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Representatives of older and new media companies detailed their embraces of the Internet Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, with supposed old-line companies emphasizing opportunities and dismissing any threats to longstanding business models.Executives from CBS, Comcast, Joost, and Current participated in panel sessions on media operations and the Internet. While the Internet might be seen as potentially taking viewers away from traditional broadcast and cable television, panelists noted that TV viewership still accounts for several hours per person daily and continues on its 30-year trend upward.Comcast and CBS officials both noted that the Internet can extend their businesses."We love the Internet for a variety of reasons," said Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, which is responsible for the cable TV provider's Internet businesses. People use Comcast's pipe to access the Internet and Comcast is the largest residential ISP, she said.But Comcast also believes in cable TV and that it will be around for a while, she said. "People thought that with television, radio would disappear and with cable television, broadcast television would disappear, and we all know that that hasn?t happened," Banse said.The Internet has enabled CBS to extend beyond its largely U.S.-based audience and to gain "new eyeballs," said Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, which covers Internet operations. "We, CBS, have not found the Internet to be cannibalistic to television," Smith said.Persons who see a two-minute clip of a CBS show, such as "How I Met Your Mother," might be encouraged to watch the program, he said. He recalled how a recent clip of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton showed up on YouTube and drew a lot of traffic; this was embraced by CBS, which carries Letterman's show.Asked by panel moderator Josh Quittner, of Fortune magazine, if she was worried about Google, Banse dismissed this."You want me to be a dinosaur running scared. I'm really not," she said. Google has been a "wonderful partner" for Comcast, with people accessing the search site via the Comcast pipe, said Banse.?In a subsequent panel session, officials from Joost, which provides broadcast-quality Internet television service, and Current, which blends broadcast TV with interactive Internet communications, shared their companies' visions."We wanted to bring the magic of the Internet to television, not the dumbness of television to the Internet," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and CEO of Current. A community has been fostered to submit video that can be viewed on Current TV.Joost, meanwhile, is making peer-to-peer-based video distribution software that can run on PCs and the Macintosh, said Mike Volpi, Joost CEO. High-quality is streamed, with some of it professionally created by companies such as CBS and Viacom. Other content is developed by persons who are not so familiar. Joost is trying to develop an advertising-supported model.Both Joost and Current embrace advertising as a business model."I believe advertising is definitely the way to go," Volpi said. Advertising thus far has not blended well on the Internet because it has been offered in the form of banner ads or keywords, he said. But there are plenty of ad dollars to be gained by going after targeted users, he said.
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YouTube, the popular online video  sharing site owned by Google Inc., has signed a deal with  Digital Music Group Inc. to offer such 1960s U.S. television  programs as "I Spy" and "My Favourite Martian."
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YouTube said on Sunday it has reached a revenue-sharing deal with Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. in which local TV stations will be paid when users of the video-sharing site watch their programming.
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Clips and television episodes from the Viacom division's broad lineup of cable networks will start to appear on imeem in February.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ In a move that could end up setting the terms for how content is distributed on the Internet, Viacom demanded YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized video clips from its site Friday morning after a months-long negotiation over licensing terms broke down.
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U.S. video-sharing Web site YouTube said Friday it would remove 100,000 video clips after Viacom said they had been placed on the site without its approval.  The move comes after the two companies were unable to negotiate a distribution deal.
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SAN FRANCISCO  -  Days after clashing with Google's YouTube in a public spat over copyright protection, Viacom has found a new partner to air its content online.  On Tuesday, the media conglomerate said it had agreed to offer hundreds of hours of programming to Joost, an Internet video service created by the founders of Kazaa file-sharing software and eBay's Skype Internet calling. Joost is now being tested before wider release by midyear.
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(300 sec.) Why Viacom's latest attack on Google's YouTube will likely result in a settlement.
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A decision by MTV to allow other Web sites to embed video clips from its own sites is drawing praise from users.
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The "piracy-proof" IPTV company will distribute Paramount movies and TV shows from MTV and Comedy Central.  By the Associated Press.
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Just weeks after stripping Google-owned YouTube of its video clips, Viacom has struck a deal to offer broadcast-quality programs on Joost, the Internet television website.