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Something else to note is that OK Go got its way with the label, and this video is embeddable. For reference, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060736 h
by mawhidby 17y ago
Something else to note is that OK Go got its way with the label, and this video is embeddable.
For reference, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060736 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060736
- seldo 17y agoIs that what happened? The plug for State Farm at the end makes me think they did an end-run around the label and got somebody else to pay for the video, thus the record company doesn't own the video and they can embed it? (But then they'd still own the rights to the song, so maybe not)
- mawhidby 17y agoYou may be right. I've been searching for some evidence of either case, but haven't found any yet. I had figured that the video being embeddable had meant that the label had listened to Damian's previous post.
- misuba 17y agoMaybe the label was alright with embedding if they could do a sponsorship deal to sub in for the otherwise lost revenue. (Recall that YouTube only pays the label for video views in a YouTube-hosted page.)