[cma-l] URGENT! Do you put video on demand on your website - if so this is URGENT

[Cathy Aitchison]

Take a look at the website of the new ATVOD (Association for Television on Demand), which is taking the regulatory role over from Ofcom.
http://atvod.co.uk/  
(BTW, they say 'Content to follow' on several of their pages, which perhaps gives a clue as to their current level of understanding of how the online world works.... )

You can download their document 'Guidance on who needs to notify' here:
http://atvod.co.uk/downloads/who_should_notify.pdf
It's comprehensive - this section is interesting:
2. Is the service an 'on-demand programme service'? 
2.1 Under section 368A of the Act, a service will be an 'on-demand programme service', and therefore subject to notification and regulation, if it meets all of following criteria. 
a) It includes TV-like programmes: the service includes programmes whose form and content are comparable to the form and content of programmes of a kind normally included in television programme services; 
b) It is a VOD service: the service enables users to select individual programmes from among the programmes included in the service, to receive the selected programme using an electronic communications network,1 and to view the selected programme when the user chooses; 
c) There is editorial responsibility: the programmes comprising the service are under a person's editorial responsibility; and 
d) It is made available to the public: the service is made available by that person for use by members of the public..

According to that, charitable organisations which make campaigning and awareness-raising videos for events such as Refugee Week, and include them on their websites, would count as VOD service providers. Perhaps that's the idea: maybe a bright spark in Whitehall thought it would be a good way of stopping people from exposing injustices and such like....

If anyone has any insights into the thought processes behind the wording in the Act, it will be useful to hear them.

Best wishes
Cathy Aitchison
http://www.londonlinkradio.net 
http://rwradio.wordpress.com 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaqui Devereux" <jaqui.devereux at commedia.org.uk>
To: "'CMA-L'" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:40 AM
Subject: [cma-l] URGENT! Do you put video on demand on your website - if so this is URGENT


Dear all

DEADLINE 15 July

Ofcom have decided (for the moment) that there will be a flat fee of 
£2,900 payable by anyone who puts video on demand (VOD) on their 
website.  If you do this already or think you may want to in the future, 
then you need to register your objection to this proposed fee which 
would apply equally to Sky, BBC, UTV etc and to you.

We are trying to get them to introduce a vastly reduced fee category for 
charitable and not for profit organisations, not just in the media 
sector but across the whole of the voluntary sector.

To voice your opinion (best to write saying you want to do VOD on your 
site but your income is only £xxx per annum, so such a fee would be 
completely unaffordable) to:

Adam.Baxter at ofcom.org.uk

CC us in if you can,

Thanks

Jaqui

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