The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has forced Google-owned YouTube to remove video clips of last weekend’s Oscar broadcast. Is the Academy hopelessly out of touch or just making a smart business decision? Technology reporter Rachel Rosmarin and media editor Peter Kafka squared off on the Digital Download, a blog dedicated to the day’s must-read tech stories. Here’s what they had to say.
This is going to prove to be a fatal move for the Oscars. They are making this force decision not around the business model of YouTube, but around the pure fact of copyrights. The Oscars will be missing out on the visibility and hype that YouTube and Google Video offers to organizations.
What other great opportunity does YouTube provide for the community as well as the Oscars? Highlights. People are not going to be posting boring clips on YouTube, but they will be posting the highlights and the great clips. That’s why people will go watch them on YouTube because they are the best of the best clips.
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