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Warner Music taps Brightcove for embedded video

brighcove video technologyAll this talk about video lately is surely driving everyone video mad! This is a different kind of video news, a new partnership of sorts. Warner Music, one of those big record labels, has decided to use Brightcove's technology to embed music videos inside of its record label and musician web sites. Sire, Atlantic, and Electra are some of the labels that will be using the video technology to provide music videos and artist interviews on demand to visitors. Now, kicking this into a social space, MySpace, and social network fans will be able to easily add the videos to their pages. This new effort by Warner, is a way to keep track, and monitor video usage in the outside world. Well, outside of YouTube and other video sharing sites at least.

Filed under: Audio, Web services, Google

Content filtering in the works for YouTube

google youtube content filteringLooks like Google's new partners, Warner, Universal, and Sony, are pushing Google to develop a technology that allows copyright owners to search and locate their content and choose to whether they want remove it from YouTube. This new technology that is in development is said to be able to scan audio in mp3 or video and compare so-called electronic fingerprints. In order to make labels happy and avoid costly lawsuits, Google is going to have to implement this software, and prove to record labels that the YouTube service is going to make everyone happy.

Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services

Legal Music Downloads with SpiralFrog

spiralfrog legal music downloadsSpiralFrog is coming out of the streets of New York City to prove that free legal music downloading is where its at. The service will stay in business by offering ad-supported downloads of audio and video. There are some major labels signed on to this startups project including recording giant Universal Music.

The Universal music deal will allow SpiralFrog users in Canada and the US the ability to download the Universal Music Group's catalogue. There will be no cost to the end user. There will be DRM built into all of the audio and video content. There is no word on the effect that this might have on the content, but it could potentially block it from being burned properly, or transferred to MP3 devices. The SpiralFrog service is scheduled to launch in beta form at the end of 2006.

[Via GigaOM]

Filed under: Audio, Business, Fun, Internet, Video, Web services, Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Social Software

YouTube to host "every music video ever created"

youtube music videosYouTube is on a quest to add a massive music video library to its extremely popular online database of videos, and is asking major labels to work with them. YouTube has been in talks with major record labels about posting their archives of music videos in their service. This is a drastic, but reasonable move away from a site where people share their own videos, moving towards a more mainstream approach providing professional content.

The co-founder of YouTube Steve Chen spoke about how in 12-18 months he would like to have every music video ever created accessible on YouTube. The big way that YouTube will differentiate themselves is to offer the service for free, and not charge like much of their competition (iTunes, AOL, Google and Yahoo) does.

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