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

[London Chinese Radio]

I think we should write to YouTube and ask them what they think of this...

Peter
London Chinese Radio

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, London Chinese Radio <
admin at londonhuayu.co.uk> wrote:

> Exactly what I'm thinking!
> We haven't got a license from Ofcom. We use YouTube, just like millions of
> people and organisations. What right have they got to start charging people?
>
> Peter Vautier
> London Chinese Radio
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Clive Glover <clive.glover at lineone.net>wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jaqui Devereux
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