YouTube reaches deals for music, sports content
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InfoWorld - YouTube&#160;furthered its attempts to offer legitimate footage on its video-sharing Web site this week by announcing deals that will provide users with music video and professional basketball content.
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YouTube, the popular online video  sharing service, is teaming up with major marketing and media  partners for a competition to discover the most talented  unsigned bands on its site.
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More than 50,000 music artists will now get paid when their tracks are used as backing music for clips on YouTube, in a new deal between the music industry and the website.
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MTV Networks owners Viacom Inc. said  it &quot;welcomes&quot; the opportunity to license its content to Apple  Inc. after the iPod maker signed a deal with top online video  distributor YouTube.
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Web search leader Google Inc.   GOOG.O is in talks to buy YouTube Inc., the world's leading   Web site for video entertainment, for close to $1.6 billion,   the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person   familiar with the matter.
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The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube to allow 3 channels to showcase short clips of BBC content. This news comes hot on the heels of a New York Times article on Google&#8217;s quest for forming partnerships with smaller media companies as opposed to major studios and networks such as Viacom or NBC. The [...]
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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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The BBC has signed a major  deal with Google to launch three branded channels on YouTube.
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Music videos from Madonna, Red Hot  Chili Peppers and Sean Paul will be legally available for the  first time on YouTube, the online video sharing site, which  signed its first commercial partnership with Warner Music Group  Corp. on Monday.
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The National Basketball Association announced a deal with the video-sharing site to create an authorized N.B.A. channel and sanction fansâ uploads.
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Online couch potatoes will now have a lot more viewing options when watching the popular video Web site YouTube.
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(InfoWorld) - YouTubeÂ furthered its attempts to offer legitimate footage on its video-sharing Web site this week by announcing deals that will provide users with music video and professional basketball content. On Tuesday, YouTube and Wind-up Records, a division of Wind-up Entertainment, said that a majority of Wind-up's music videos will be shown on the site. The arrangement also allows for the use of certain preselected music tracks in user-created videos. Artists signed to the label include Evanescence and Scott Strapp, who was the lead singer of the band Creed. As with its other media partners, a revenue-sharing model will give both companies money from the advertising sold on the pages that display Wind-up's content. This follows Monday's announcement that the National Basketball Association has teamed with YouTube to create an "NBA Channel" on the site. As of Monday, users can view league-approved NBA content on the channel. The material will come from NBA.com's own video selections and will include certain selected plays and behind-the-scenes footage. While users will still be allowed to upload NBA material to the site, the arrangement allows the league to call for the removal of some material. In the spirit of the user-generated content movement that is part of "Web 2.0," users can also submit videos of their basketball skills. Site visitors will judge the videos and the winners will be compiled and shown in a weekly highlight video. The profit-sharing arrangement also extends to this deal, according to the NBA. The moves are part of a larger effort YouTube has made to resolve intellectual-property disputes over copyright material users upload to the site. Copyright holders have demanded that YouTube remove the material, while in other situations, the video's owners and YouTube have reached agreements that allow content to remain on the site. YouTube, founded in 2005, began experiencing fallout from hosting copyright video around the timeÂ Google announced it was purchasing the siteÂ for $1.65 billion in October 2006. Earlier this month, YouTube complied withÂ a request from Viacom International to remove over 100,000 of its clips, including content from MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures. In January, YouTube deleted clips from News Corp.'s Fox television division afterÂ the media company subpoenaed the site and asked for the content's removalÂ in addition to information on who posted the material. This came after a bout with a group of Japanese copyright holders in October that resulted inÂ the removal of approximately 30,000 clips. YouTube holds content deals with Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, CBS, Warner Music Group, NBC, and the National Hockey League. Â
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By Lorenzo Perez, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 17--YouTube's video-sharing Web site already lures millions of viewers with a broad spectrum of niche programming that includes everything from old Lionel Richie music videos to raunchy college dorm pranks.
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YouTube is set to announce a partnership with the BBC to create two entertainment channels and one news channel on YouTube.
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The deal would authorize YouTube.com to show Warner Music videos and user-created clips that incorporate Warner music.
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Video-sharing Web site YouTube said on Wednesday that it has reached a deal with British licensing organizations that collect royalties on behalf of 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers.
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Google Inc. may be frustrated in efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major media companies such as NBC or Viacom Inc. to put their videos on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller media partners, The New York Times reported on Friday.