youtube "losses" for Boyle as Diversity win

The story below from WIRED shows how difficult things are becoming in the cliposhpere when they should be getting so easy.

How can a person anywhere in the world easily get a "revenue sharing account" with youtube?

Isn't it simple enough to clear rights for something that seems to be a sure win for all concerned?

Why is youtube populated with many "not available" clips on a geographic basis?

Why is the embedding of youtube clips being blocked widely; when there appears to be little economic benefit to anyone?


In the weeks to come I will be exploring and hopefully explaining the "why" and the "how" of making money in the cliposphere; enjoy the winners "diversity" at the link:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwVfJqBfms&feature=haxa_popt00us00


full link below from : Eliot Van Buskirk

Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent video is on track to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube, amassing nearly 100million views in its first nine days and earning the producers of the program a serendipitous, potential windfall that should already be in the millions.

then from a "Google spokeswoman"

"That video is not being monetized." We’ve contacted Sony (Simon Cowell’s label) and FremantleMedia (the show’s producer, owned by RTL Group not Sony as appeared in this update earlier) and now ITV to try to determine why the $500,000 or more Boyle’s video should have generated so far is apparently being left on the table — despite the fact that both companies are confirmed revenue-sharing partners of YouTube.

and "A Fremantle spokesman"

"No comment is our official position." 4/23: Waiting to hear back from ITV, which apparently could not come to an agreement with YouTube over how to share ad revenue.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/susan-boyle-nev/