ITV has tonight blocked anyone from uploading footage from the Leaders debates to YouTube because it may violate their own copyright.
Instead, viewers are forced to watch clips from ITV’s own archive on YouTube. Even short short clips of several seconds have been taken off.
Blogger Political Scrapbook, who uploaded three videos from the debate, tweeted this tonight:
.@ITV1 is blocking other footage of #leadersdebate summing up but won’t let you embed their own. #democracy
Videos now display the statement: ‘This video contains content from ITV.com, who has blocked it on copyright grounds’
@psbook told Libcon:
This wouldn’t be a problem but they won’t let you embed the footage on a blog/website. It’s basically taking ownership of what should be a public process. Why should the we be forced to visit ITV sites to view the summing up?
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The ITV channel page http://www.youtube.com/ITV1 won’t allow you to embed even when you click “share”. But (counter-intuitively) if you click through to the video it will allow you this option.
As it stands, the only video I’m aware is affected is the following clip of Gordon Brown’s closing speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzlLbuOFIBg
But the point about copyright claim still stands. Why should a Tory blogger, for example, interested in Cameron’s closing statement be forced to embed a longer clip with Brown at the beginning?
This may only be one clip (as far as I’m aware?) but it shouldn’t be in ITV’s gift to decide which YouTube videos of the debate are viewable exclusively through their portal and which aren’t. By behaving in this way and blocking clips, they’ve treating the debate footage like premium sports footage or something.
What a joke. They just dont want us to tear the leaders to shreds with our analysis and mock-ups.
Could this, per chance, be one of the many ‘rules’ agreed on beforehand? That the channel hosting the debates, must be responsible for monitoring the use of the footage afterwards (at least for another three weeks anyway)?
