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YouTube, the video social-networking website owned by
Google, is building a vast network of content providers, a company
spokesman told AFP.
YouTube has concluded "more than 1,000 partnerships" with
content providers both big and small, YouTube spokesman David Song
said late Friday, confirming a New York Times report.
He declined to comment further on the company's strategy of
constructing a huge authorized library.
YouTube has run into legal disputes with companies such as Viacom,
parent of MTV and Paramount Pictures. YouTube was forced to remove
more than 100,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom television programs
in February after a promised copyright protection system was not
installed on the popular website.
On Friday the British Broadcasting Corporation announced it had
agreed a deal with YouTube, joining the likes of US broadcasters
NBC, CBS and Fox.
The BBC said it hoped to reach YouTube's monthly audience of over 70
million viewers and generate wider interest in its programs, its own
website and eventually related content on its proposed BBC iPlayer
commercial download service.
The British broadcaster will put on YouTube video clips from its
programs and will set up three "networks," two devoted to
entertainment and one featuring news.
Other new deals YouTube announced this week include an agreement
with the National Basketball Association. That deal includes the
creation of a new area on the website, the NBA Channel, where fans
can access original NBA content and submit their own basketball
video clips as well as rate those of other people in a program
called "Post Up the NBA."
Google bought YouTube in November in a 1.65-billion-dollar stock
deal.
-- AFP
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