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YouTube: At war with Warner Music Group

by Laurel Papworth on January 25, 2009 · 8 comments

Just kinda bookmarking this one – at war with your customer and forcing your customer to go to war with you, en masse. Warner Music Group are forcing Google’s YouTube to pull videos that have any recognisable Warner music in it. Background, homage, mashups, clips, concerts, cover’s, singing the shower, you name it, gone.

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Joost receives £22.6m in VC funding

by Laurel Papworth on May 16, 2007 · 0 comments

From NMA:

Internet TV service Joost has acquired $45m (£22.6m) in venture capital.
Five separate parties invested in the service, which launched commercially last week.
Among the investors are Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CSB Corporation and Viacom.
CBS has already contributed more than 2,000 hours of content to the service including news and popular TV [...]

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Techdirt’s Technology or Community?

by Laurel Papworth on June 26, 2006 · 2 comments

Techdirt (a free service of techdirt corporate intelligence) had this insightful little bite from Mike of the seems-like-it department:

Which Is More Important: Technology Or Community?
from the seems-like-it dept
There’s an interesting little blurb making the rounds today about Rupert Murdoch claiming Google could have bought MySpace three months before he did at half the price. That’s [...]

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