YouTube Makes Deal For Old TV Shows

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YouTube Makes Deal For Old TV Shows

By: Nathan Weinberg
2007-02-20

YouTube announced last week a deal with Digital Music Group to bring that company's archive of old TV shows to YouTube.

Digital owns over 40 hours of video content, including a bunch of old TV shows and movies, mostly from the 1960s, including "I Spy", "Gumby" and "My Favorite Martian". YouTube users will be able to watch the shows for free, as well as include music owned by the company in their own videos, in return for a portion of advertising revenue.

Here's some other interesting stuff:

Here's a video showing off "Google's Master Plan". It's no EPIC, but still good:

I love what this guy's doing, surrounding Google AdSense ads in Windows Vista Aero Glass. I'm pretty sure he isn't violating any Terms of Service, so pretty cool decoration:

Take a look at Engadget's photos of some new Lenovo Windows Mobile phones. Look closely, because there's a Google button on those phones. Intriguing

Slashdot has a dust-up over a YouTube account being deleted after the user uploaded a video critical of Islam. Problem is, there is no conspiracy, just a video that uses copyrighted background music and got caught doing it. Nothing to see here.

The record labels are putting the squeeze on non-YouTube video sites, just as predicted when YouTube got bought, forcing Bolt.com to sell itself to competitor GoFish in order to pay a legal settlement to Universal Music. This isn't the first, or the last.

Check out this Dilbert, which I call, "What happens when your company switches the plan to Google". (via Digg)

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