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<div>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?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/07/2010, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julian Mellor</b> <<a href="mailto:julian@10radio.org">julian@10radio.org</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>On 6 Jul 2010, at 14:10, Cathy Aitchison wrote:</div><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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>
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<div><br> </div></span>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 style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">video content on corporate websites, where the purpose is to disseminate </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px">Presumably that would include a charity's campaigning material?</div></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px">What I don't understand is the meaning of the clause setting out excluded activities: "<font face="Helvetica" color="#000000" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Services that are primarily non-economic,.....</span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">. In this </span>context, "economic‟ is interpreted in the widest sense to encompass all forms <span style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">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: 0px">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></div>
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