{"id":523,"date":"2006-09-15T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/15\/universal-is-wrong-nbc-is-right\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:03:48","slug":"universal-is-wrong-nbc-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/15\/universal-is-wrong-nbc-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal is wrong, NBC is right"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that the widely blogged-upon comments<\/a> by Universal Music chief executive Doug Morris about YouTube stealing money from his company are probably more of a bargaining chip than anything else, as Mike Masnick at Techdirt points out<\/a> with his usual perspicacity. But they still amount to a cheap shot — and a sign of how retarded (sorry, I mean “developmentally delayed”) Universal’s thinking is when it comes to social media. I can hardly wait until Umair of Bubblegeneration.com weighs in on this one.<\/p>\n

Contrast the threats from Mr. Morris (based on a questionable understanding of the laws regarding copyright infringement, as Mike notes) with what NBC is doing: not only trying to find new and different ways of “monetizing” their content on the Web, but setting up an entire entity devoted to doing that, as I wrote about here<\/a>. They are also streaming their new fall shows for free, supported by advertising, as are several other networks. <\/p>\n

That seems a whole lot smarter to me than rattling the sabres and getting the lawyers all fired up. As James Robertson notes<\/a>, the “clues aren’t very thick” over there at Universal, it seems.<\/p>\n

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I know that the widely blogged-upon comments by Universal Music chief executive Doug Morris about YouTube stealing money from his company are probably more of a bargaining chip than anything else, as Mike Masnick at Techdirt points out with his usual perspicacity. But they still amount to a cheap shot — and a sign of … <\/p>\n

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