<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 6 Jul 2010, at 14:10, Cathy Aitchison wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div background="" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">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....</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Except clause 3.3 says: "Services comprised of the following types of video content may not be <div>considered to be on-demand programme services....(d) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">video content on corporate websites, where the purpose is to disseminate </span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; ">information about the company's own operations, products or financial performance" </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; ">Presumably that would include a charity's campaigning material?</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; ">What I don't understand is the meaning of the clause setting out excluded activities: "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent;">Services that are primarily non-economic,.....</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">. In this </span>context, "economic‟ is interpreted in the widest sense to encompass all forms <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">of economic activity, however funded, and may include public service </span>material, free to view content, as well as advertising-funded, subscription, pay per view and other transactional business models"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; ">Does that mean that public service material etc <u>is</u> excluded from the VOD regulations, or does it mean that it is considered to be economic and is therefore within the regulations?</div></body></html>