CBS and YouTube decide against marriage
PrintProposed content deal collapses
Posted in Entertainment, 21st February 2007 09:41 GMT
Free whitepaper – Thermal design of Dell PowerEdge server
A proposed deal which would have seen clips of CBS shows posted on YouTube has collapsed, Reuters reports.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and CBS had been agreeing a "multi-year" contract but finally "could not agree on issues such as how long the deal would run". Accordingly, YouTubers will now not be able to (legally) enjoy excerpts from faves such as The Late Show with David Letterman.
The door is still open, though, for a future resumption of talks, and the two companies said they would for the moment to "work together only on more modest initiatives".
The Wall Street Journal also says YouTube is negotiating to "offer video from the BBC", citing "people familiar with the matter". ®
Free whitepaper – Managing operating systems and applications with the new Dell Management Console
Managing desktop software for fun and profit
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Enabling The Agile Data Center
Dirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide
Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter