Comments on: Record companies plotting their own YouTube rival http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/30/record-companies-plotting-their-own-youtube-rival/ Technology news Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:04:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: matt churchill http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/30/record-companies-plotting-their-own-youtube-rival/comment-page-1/#comment-154118 matt churchill Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:47:47 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/30/record-companies-plotting-their-own-youtube-rival/#comment-154118 You just wonder where it will end - could Lego turn round and say "oi, enough of all the UGC featuring our figures, we want royalties thanks" The problem for the majors is that the videos and music are now in the public domain so anything currently available will be impossible to police. The only way they can prevent any sort of retribution for future video releases is to make them impossible to download or record direct from the web, which is highly unlikely. You just wonder where it will end – could Lego turn round and say “oi, enough of all the UGC featuring our figures, we want royalties thanks”

The problem for the majors is that the videos and music are now in the public domain so anything currently available will be impossible to police. The only way they can prevent any sort of retribution for future video releases is to make them impossible to download or record direct from the web, which is highly unlikely.

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