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Monday, October 15, 2012

Abu Dhabi: Sales Agents To Become Global Distributors...

International sales banners will reinvent themselves as video-on-demand global distributors, Abu Dhabi festival goers are told.

Abu Dhabi – Movie industry attendees at this year's Abu Dhabi Film Festival heard that producers and sales agents will work much more closely together as the internet revolutionises the movie business.

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And representatives from the two business strands of the international film business will also share revenues as a result.

Production Finance Market chief Angus Finney told Abu Dhabi Film Festival goers that the internet will play a part in the evolution of the two businesses.

Right now, sales agents charge a fee for each territory sold then often walk away. In the future sales agents and filmmakers will work together throughout a film's lifespan, "especially with video-on-demand," Finney said.

Speaking at a masterclass, Finney said: "Sales agents will be aligned with producers ... the market is changing so fast that sales agents could take control of all rights. The right sales agent will become increasingly able to control internet release."

The internet has destroyed Hollywood's "push economy" -- studios dictating when and where customers can see films – in favour of a "pull economy."

Catch-up TV and on-demand streaming have put the customer in the driving seat, something which Hollywood has been slow to accept, Finney noted.

Studios have not helped themselves by erecting "walled-gardens around their content, making movies harder to access."

Such a move, Finney said, goes against the grain of the internet.
"They are also terrified about plummeting DVD revenue, which has accounted for 60% of a movie's earnings. The user is the new king," Finney said.

The British born film consultant, author and one time film financier, quoted Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who said the question is not what is going to change in the next 10 years, but what's going to be left standing by the end of the decade?

Disney, he noted, has reacted to the new horizontal world we all live by getting rid of its silo mentality, tearing down walls between theatrical and home entertainment.

But Finney remains upbeat about prospects for theatrical. Exhibition will become even more important, he claimed.

"Watching films in a cinema is a unique experience that will not be completely replaced by watching films on cellphones or tablets," Finney said.

This is despite the growing importance of handheld devices, which, Finney said previously, will take over as the dominant screen "within months, not years". He said: "Exhibition rights will continue to be sold territory-by-territory, while internet rights could be sold as a single block."

Finney was sceptical about independent producers handling the release of their own films pouring cold water on evangelists for self-distribution, pointing out how hard the sales business is.

Finney was managing director of sales agent Renaissance Films, which went bust in 2005. Movies that Finney handled sales on included The Mother and The Luzhin Defence.

"As a producer you may think you're in control of your film's release, but you have to deal with the same battle for eyeballs which everybody else is dealing with. Distribution is a full-time job," Finney said.

This year's Production Finance Market runs October 17 and18 during the BFI London Film Festival in the British capital.

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YouTube Mulls Allowing Original Content Partners to Charge for Subscriptions...

Robert Kyncl, global head of content at the Google-owned video site, tells the Abu Dhabi Media Summit that a majority of channels would likely remain ad-supported.

ABU DHABI - YouTube is looking at giving its original content channel partners the option to charge users for subscriptions, Robert Kyncl, global head of content at the Google-owned online video site said here Wednesday at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.

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If the site does go ahead with this approach, "the majority will be ad-supported, and there will be some that will be paid," he predicted.
He later told THR that there are no set plans though and that it was too early to say when such subscriptions could be offered or at what prices.
Industry observers have previously wondered if and when YouTube could offer the subscription option as a potential revenue stream besides advertising.
Kyncl said YouTube's goal for now continues to be "taking the friction out" of the ad process to maximize ad revenue for the site and its partners. Promising advertisers that they only pay when ads are actually viewed draws higher ad rates and benefits all sides, he said.
YouTube typically sells ads against the channels and keeps all revenue up until it recoups its original investment. After that, YouTube and the content partner split ad revenue roughly 50:50.
Kyncl also said that when offering content in a branded and popular context, it draws higher ad rates. For example, he said videos of dogs on skateboards may draw minimal costs per thousand advertisers of $2 or less, but that goes up to $20 when the dogs on skateboard appear on a branded Tony Hawk channel.
Earlier this week, YouTube added more than 60 new original content channels to its lineup, including some from international content partners. The news took the company's original programming push to a more global audience.
In a session entitled "The War for the Living Room: The Internet Takes on Television," Kyncl also predicted that mobile usage by YouTube users will continue to rise. About 50 percent of consumption in parts of the Arabic-speaking world already happens on mobiles, he said.
Asked about the increasing usage of mobile devices during TV viewing, known in the industry as the rise of the "second screen," he quipped that for him, television rather than iPads or smartphones are the second screen.

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MPAA's Chris Dodd extends olive branch to Silicon Valley...

Chris Dodd, Hollywood's chief lobbyist, extended an olive branch to Silicon Valley.

Eager to put to rest a bruising battle with Google and other tech companies over ill-fated anti-piracy bills this year, Dodd stressed common ground between California's two signature industries in a speech Tuesday at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

"What I don't want to do is relive the SOPA debate -- and I hope you don't either,'' Dodd said, alluding to the Stop Online Piracy Act that sparked an unprecedented online protest led by Google, Wikipedia and other tech giants. They saw the bill as threat to the Internet.

"Issues surrounding piracy and how we protect the hard work of many thousands of American creators and makers in movies and television are important though, and worth talking about together without heated rhetoric and raised voices. And I accept my share of responsibility for some of that in the past."

Dodd even praised Google for recent steps to curb online piracy and touted common interests shared with Hollywood.

He cited the joint initiative known as UltraViolet, an effort by dozens of content and tech companies to allow customers to purchase and acquire content in one form and then have the ability to watch it on any of their devices.

"We share a belief in innovation,'' Dodd said. "We call them audiences, you call them users, but giving them the best possible experience is a shared goal. In the end, we all report to the same people."

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Google Search to Start Targeting Copyright Violators...

Article from Aug 2012

The new policy, meant to promote high-quality media sources on the web, won't banish sites like torrenthound.com entirely -- but they will turn up much lower in results.

In a bid to steer Internet users to higher-quality video, audio, images and text on the web, Google beginning next week will push links that most likely contain content that violates copyrights lower in search results.

The effort should thrill the creators of TV shows, movies and music that have long complained of Internet pirates who illegally post their content on websites they have no control over and, therefore, earn no money from.

Google said in a blog post Friday that sites receiving a large number of valid copyright removal notices will continue to be listed during a search, though much lower on the results page.

An example of some of the sites that could be negatively impacted by Google's new policy are filestube.com, extratorrent.com, torrenthound.com, bitsnoop.com and isohunt.com.

The new "signal," the latest of more than 200 already used in Google search algorithms, will apply to all of the sites the Google index touches, which amounts to an estimated 30 trillion unique URLs.

"The ranking change," senior vp engineering Amit Singhal blogged, "should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily -- whether it's a song previewed on NPR's music website, a TV show on Hulu or new music streamed from Spotify."

In a statement, the MPAA cautiously applauded the move.

"We are optimistic that Google's actions will help steer consumers to the myriad legitimate ways for them to access movies and TV shows online, and away from the rogue cyberlockers, peer-to-peer sites, and other outlaw enterprises that steal the hard work of creators across the globe. We will be watching this development closely – the devil is always in the details – and look forward to Google taking further steps to ensure that its services favor legitimate businesses and creators, not thieves."

The RIAA on Friday called the new policy "a potentially significant change" that it has been "urging Google to take for a long time."

"Google has signaled a new willingness to value the rights of creators," the RIAA said in a press release. "That is good news indeed. And the online marketplace for the hundreds of licensed digital services embraced by the music business is better today than it was yesterday."

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Google Pulls Plug on TV Ad Sales System...

The TV Ads in Adwords service, which faced industry resistance, will come to an end later this year.

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Google is pulling the plug on an online exchange that tried to establish the online giant as a major player in the sale of TV ad spots.

In a blog post late Thursday, Google said it would end its TV Ads in Adwords service later this year.
Google has been successfully selling paid-search ads online and wanted to push into the TV ad space, but faced resistance from established players in the TV and advertising communities.
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Hallmark Channel and NBCUniversal's cable channels became early partners, hoping to draw more local advertisers that Google has relationships with. But the Google ad venture was dealt a setback in 2010 when NBCUniversal ended its deal a year early.
"In 2007, we launched Google TV Ads in AdWords to bring digital buying and measurement technologies to traditional TV advertising," Shishir Mehrotra, vp of product at Google's YouTube, wrote in the blog post late Thursday. "Since then, lots of our clients have bought traditional TV advertising for the first time. However, video is increasingly going digital, and users are now watching across numerous devices."
Added Mehrotra: "The future of video advertising is extremely bright, and we're excited to devote ourselves fully to it."
The service's staff would be moved "to other areas at Google," the post said without providing more details.

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Why Hollywood Wins in Judge's Rejection of Facebook Privacy Settlement..

Big tech companies like Facebook and Google have been using settlements in privacy lawsuits to fund organizations that have their back in copyright battles with Hollywood.

In a ruling on Friday, a San Francisco judge rejected a $20 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over whether Facebook violated the privacy of its users by featuring them in a "Sponsored Stories" advertisement program.

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The rejection of a settlement where half of the money was to go to lawyers and half to "charity" and almost nothing to actual victims could bolster attention on a maneuver that allows big tech companies like Facebook and Google to funnel money to organizations that are hostile to Hollywood's pro-copyright agenda.
The original lawsuit itself had little to do with Hollywood. Nevertheless, it touches entertainment anyway thanks to the judge's address of cy pres, a legal doctrine born out of Norman French and old estate law that roughly means that when it's hard or impractical to award compensation in court cases, payment can be made as "near as possible," including to not-for-profit organizations with similar interests.
The plaintiffs in the "Sponsored Stories" case sued Facebook for allegedly violating their rights of publicity and California's unfair competition law by using their names and images without consent in ads that were shown to users' online friends on the social network. After two years of litigation, the dispute settled. Facebook agreed to pay $10 million to the plaintiffs' lawyers, $10 million to cy pres recipients, and $37,500 to the three class representatives who were named as plaintiffs. Facebook also agreed to make policy changes that the plaintiffs' expert economist estimated to be worth $103.2 million.
At a hearing earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg was openly skeptical about the cy pres award, wondering how lawyers arrived at that amount and how it stood to benefit Facebook's users. In a ruling rejecting the proposed settlement on Friday, the judge followed this up by saying, "Although it is not a precise science, plaintiffs must show that the cy pres payment represents a reasonable settlement of past damages claims, and that it was not merely plucked from thin air, or wholly inconsequential to them..."
Although the judge didn't rule out the possibility of a cy pres payment in the case -- and reportedly even asked at the hearing, "Why shouldn't the cy pres be $100 million?" -- more focus on who is getting cy press money could be around the bend.
In a column for Forbes in late July, legal analyst Roger Parloff pointed out that a good chunk of cy pres money awarded in privacy cases is going to organizations that "would very likely be getting at least some donations from Google or Facebook" anyway. He notes that recipients Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford collect voluntary contributions from the two big tech companies and "all reliably line up on the tech sector side in scrimmages with copyright holders."
To be fair, each of these organizations does in fact often take strong positions against tech companies on privacy issues, so in a certain regard, it's perfectly appropriate to award them money to monitor these companies going forward.
But so does the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which hasn't found it as easy to collect such money. The difference is that EPIC doesn't win friends in Silicon Valley by taking on Hollywood in legislative and policy debates. It doesn't because copyright matters are mostly outside its purview. Such a disadvantage once led EPIC to complain that one Google cy pres settlement served to divert money "to organizations that are currently paid by Google to lobby for or to consult for the company."
To avoid being shut out of a possible "sponsored stories" settlement, the EPIC along with other groups like the Center for Digital Democracy, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University, have asked to the court to adopt a procedure previously proposed in privacy cases involving Google Buzz and Netflix whereby potential cy pres recipients would disclose connections and contributions from Facebook.

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YouTube to require 'tutorials' for copyright offenders...

Google Inc.'s online video behemoth YouTube toughened its enforcement of copyright laws, requiring violators to attend "copyright school" and pass a test before they can resume uploading videos to the site.

The changes come amid calls -- both in Hollywood and in Congress -- that YouTube do more to combat piracy. Google General Counsel Kent Walker recently defended the search giant's commitment to content protection in testimony this month before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on intellectual property.

Under the new rules, YouTube users who receive notice that they used someone else's content without authorization must attend "YouTube Copyright School," which entails watching a tutorial and passing a quiz to demonstrate they understand the rules governing content. YouTube also created an online resource center to help educate YouTube user about the nuances of copyright law.

"Because copyright law can be complicated, education is critical to ensure that our users understand the rules and continue to play by them," YouTube wrote in a blog post Thursday notifying users of the new policy. "That's why today we're releasing a new tutorial on copyright and a redesigned copyright help center. We're also making two changes to our copyright process to be sure that our users understand the rules, and that users who abide by those rules can remain active on the site."

YouTube suspends users who have received three notices of copyright violation. Under the new rules, longtime YouTube content creators, who have uploaded "thousands" of videos but nonetheless receive a third strike, can avoid suspension if they successfully complete the copyright school and demonstrate "good behavior over time."

Christopher J. Dodd, the new head of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, the industry's lobbying arm, issued a statement applauding Google's recognition of copyright problems on YouTube -- and calling on the search giant to do even more to deter Internet piracy.

"To help demonstrate whether its new program is effective, we would hope that Google shares the data regarding its impact on repeat infringers as well as details on the speed in which it takes down illegal content found on its sites," Dodd said in a statement. "We also hope that Google will now take long overdue steps to address its role as a search engine in providing priority listings and rankings for rogue sites offering stolen movies and television shows."

YouTube has had a Content ID system in place since 2007 that scans videos as they are uploaded to determine whether it is someone else's copyrighted work. If the system finds a match, YouTube follows the rules the content owner has put in place to determine what to do with the new video -- whether to block it, track it or attempt to place advertising against it and share the revenue.

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Industry News: YouTube Eyes Launch of Subscription Service for Movies in U.K...

The Google site may start its offer in Europe where it faces less competition before bringing it to the U.S.
NEW YORK - Google's YouTube is looking to launch an unlimited subscription service for movies that is similar to Netflix's streaming service and an Amazon.com offer, but is considering starting it in Europe, particularly the U.K., where it faces less competition, the New York Post reported Friday.
The Internet company, which has been in talks with Hollywood studios in recent months, would then bring the service to the U.S., the paper said, citing executives with knowledge of the plan. Amazon recently acquired U.K. streaming movie service LoveFilm.
"Google is going to be launching channels in Europe and will launch a subscription video-on-demand service," one Hollywood executive told the Post. "They are going to spend $100 million on content."
YouTube has faced hurdles in its talks with studios given its legal battle with Paramount parent Viacom and other studios' concerns about piracy, the Post said. But it reported that Google may share advertising revenue with content providers to entice them to partner with YouTube.

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Biggest Risk of Google TV: Dumbing Down All of Television...

January 10, 2011

Biggest Risk of Google TV: Dumbing Down All of Television...

THR's Tim Goodman writes, `Maybe you should pay attention to the buzz out of CES to measure how much damage is coming to the industry.'
The following article appears in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter on newsstands now. Subscribers can click here to read the issue.

Hordes of people will head to Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 6 dreaming of Google TV, so they can watch their favorite show, surf the Web, tap into social media or play apps — all at the same time. But if you're in the industry, you might think twice before joining that mob.

Of all the reviews about Google TV — and most have been on the negative side — none has seriously addressed what is, for quality television producers, the all-too-real killer app: the "dual view" feature (the future's picture-in-picture) that allows all that multitasking.

Streaming media has become part of everyday life, and Apple TV, Roku and Boxee are ahead of Google in that arena. But Google TV — currently available only inside a special Sony TV set or with Logitech's set-top-box version but with sets from Samsung, Vizio and Toshiba in the offing — is wildly different.

This is Google, the ultimate go-big-or-go-home company. Whereas Apple has called its foray into connecting with TV sets "a hobby," Google has gone way beyond tinkering — which probably is why News Corp., CBS, ABC, Viacom, Hulu and others have blocked Google TV from accessing the content.

But their primary fear — loss of revenue opportunities — might not be the biggest worry. What Google TV is set to do is dumb down all of television. Insert any joke here, but it goes beyond a debate about stupid sitcoms and tawdry reality shows.

The dual-view feature combines what a lot of people are already doing — surfing the Web or texting while watching TV — but makes it a whole lot easier. It might be the tipping point toward the death of subtlety and dense, intelligent television.

According to a study Nielsen did for Yahoo, three of four Americans use the Internet while watching TV. The percentage of users who multitask, on the phone or online, has increased every year, up 35 percent from 2009 to 2010. Are they missing nuances a writer might put in? Sure. But a compelling show can drag them back to the TV. Sometimes you can't look away, whether it's a Don Draper drunk-fest or zombies taking over on The Walking Dead.

But what if you didn't have to look away? Now you've got issues. Content issues.

Here's what the Google TV features tout: "There's more on TV than television." It promotes Web browsing, checking fantasy scores, using Twitter, etc. — while you're watching television. A new update for Google's dual view adds the ability to resize and move the TV window. Nevermind that this kind of ADD enabling would have ruined The Wire; now you can take all the glorious shots of Discovery's Life and National Geographic's Great Migrations and shrink them to a tiny block in the bottom corner of your set while you watch a cat play piano on YouTube.

And don't think feature films won't be affected. With so much streaming these days, someone using Netflix on Google TV is going to miss important chunks of your acclaimed masterpiece. And then they're going to tweet that it was totally overrated.

The enemy of great TV is distraction. It might not matter if someone is texting during American Idol or some predictable sitcom, but how many times will the rapid-fire jokes of 30 Rock be completely missed? This can be dismissed as fabulously old-fashioned thinking, but how long before the networks start sending notes to showrunners saying a joke is too complicated or a scene too long?

We used to blog. Now we tweet. Only parents text in full sentences. But there was a time when people just sat and watched television. Not all of it required full attention, but a lot of the best shows these days certainly do. So what happens when your script doesn't get picked up because it's too smart? Cut the nuance — leave some room for people to check their e-mail.

Right now, tech critics are calling Google TV a misstep. But it's clear that more television manufacturers are willing to get into the game, betting that software updates fix the bugs and more networks and cable channels will cede the use of their content.

No offense to Boxee or Roku — there probably wouldn't be a chill in the air if it was only their products evolving slowly in a niche — but this is Google, so the potential for massive influence is there. And watch out if Apple starts paying more attention to its hobby.

Nobody in the television industry with any brains or power really believed that the computer was going to crush television. Content is still king — and people like Leslie Moonves aren't going to let that walk out the door.

But maybe the damage won't come from a computer screen — a couple of family members crammed into the home office to watch clips of Jon Stewart. Maybe it will come from the TV itself, with everybody lounging comfortably on the couch, completely missing Stewart's brilliant takedown of some ignorant politician because they're watching a 9-year-old do her version of "Whip My Hair" on ice skates.

Maybe you should pay attention to the buzz out of CES to measure how much damage is coming to the industry. On the other hand, maybe you're an early adopter who already has Google TV. The revolution could be televised, but you might miss it while changing your Facebook status.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Abu Dhabi: Sales Agents To Become Global Distributors...

YouTube Mulls Allowing Original Content Partners to Charge for Subscriptions...

Friday, October 12, 2012

MPAA's Chris Dodd extends olive branch to Silicon Valley...

Google Search to Start Targeting Copyright Violators...

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Google Pulls Plug on TV Ad Sales System...

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Why Hollywood Wins in Judge's Rejection of Facebook Privacy Settlement..

Thursday, April 14, 2011

YouTube to require 'tutorials' for copyright offenders...

Friday, March 4, 2011

Industry News: YouTube Eyes Launch of Subscription Service for Movies in U.K...

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Biggest Risk of Google TV: Dumbing Down All of Television...