Surprise surprise, the Academy has been bullying YouTube and forced it to remove clips from the 2007 Oscars. They’d rather you watch the frankly lame and advertisement preceded content they have on their own website.
For some reason the actual acceptance speeches aren’t featured there. Instead there’s a thing called the “thank you-cam” which consists of Oscar winners giving secondary speeches backstage to thank people they forget to thank on stage. So it’s basically the Oscar eqiuvelant of a bunch of crappy deleted scenes.
When will big corporations like Disney (which owns ABC, as well as owning the official Oscar website in conjunction with the Academy) realise that all the exposure they get via YouTube is good publicity, while crushing lawyerless YouTube users is bad publicity?
No one was making any money from people watching the now unavailable video of the Will Ferrell, Jack Black, John C. Reilly musical number, and the Oscar website isn’t offering the content either. So what do Viacom and the Academy gain from pulling it?
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March 1 2007 @ 9:55 am
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Detective Zito said
March 1 2007 @ 1:08 pm
FYI – Viacom does not own ABC. They used to own CBS until a corporate split. Disney Corp owns ABC.
daryl said
March 1 2007 @ 1:15 pm
Thanks DZ. I’d meant Disney, it’s been corrected.
chewie said
March 1 2007 @ 6:37 pm
They just want us to see their ads in their site. And, ehmm well, the only one making money of it is youtube itself… though,,i dont agree with the academy deleting the vids from iutube…