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

[Clive Glover]

Jaqui

Some  clarifications please. The first I heard of this was a brief mention at the Conference on Saturday.

Does this apply (as you say) literally to "anyone" who does this (in the UK presumably) or does it apply only to bodies licensed by OFCOM? Full time licenses or short term ones (RSLs) too?

How about if we put a piece of video on You Tube with a link to our website (which we do sometimes)?

I wonder what is behind this or even whether OFCOM has the powers to impose such a thing. If they can impose this on video why not audio (podcasts) or text?

Has the Silly Season arrived early this year?

Clive Glover

On 6 Jul 2010, at 11:40, Jaqui Devereux wrote:

> 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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