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

[jaqui devereux]

Dear all

We take it mean to that public service material is NOT excluded.  We urge
you all to write to Adam at Ofcom as per my earlier email.  His inbox needs
to be crowded with protest from the voluntary sector.  NB it is not just the
broadcasting and media sector that might be covered - it is your local
Parish Council, village fete etc.  I am sure there will be a number of legal
challenges once ATVOD start to harass small community groups for £2,900, but
easier if we can persuade Ofcom to exclude such entities from the charge in
the first place?

Jaqui


On 06/07/2010, Julian Mellor <julian at 10radio.org> wrote:
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>
>  On 6 Jul 2010, at 14:10, Cathy Aitchison wrote:
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> 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....
>
>
>
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> Except clause 3.3 says: "Services comprised of the following types of video
> content may not be
> considered to be on-demand programme services....(d) video content on
> corporate websites, where the purpose is to disseminate
>  information about the company's own operations, products or
> financial performance"
> Presumably that would include a charity's campaigning material?
>
>
> What I don't understand is the meaning of the clause setting out excluded
> activities: "Services that are primarily non-economic,...... In this context,
> "economic" is interpreted in the widest sense to encompass all forms of
> economic activity, however funded, and may include public service material,
> free to view content, as well as advertising-funded, subscription, pay per
> view and other transactional business models"
> Does that mean that public service material etc *is* excluded from the VOD
> regulations, or does it mean that it is considered to be economic and is
> therefore within the regulations?
>
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