Video Clipped…ATVOD decide that YouTube like video service requires their expensive censorship services

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So the newspapers will have to pay big money to get their YouTube like video services censored. It must be particularly galling that they will end up subsidising hardcore internet services that seem to be the only business in town that will actual required any ATVOD intervention. See article from pressgazette.co.uk

Newspaper and magazine publishers face paying thousands of pounds in fees if they continue using video content on their websites, industry groups have warned. ATVOD has ruled that short video clips on publishers’ websites provide a TV-like service. This means publishers must register with ATVOD and pay an annual fee – a ruling strongly opposed by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) and the Newspaper Society. While last year’s annual fee was £2,900, the PPA claims that, depending on company turnover, that figure could rise to as much as £25,000. PPA chief executive Barry McIlheney said: Essentially the disproportionate regulatory fees being charged by ATVOD are damaging innovative digital businesses and putting them at a disadvantage compared to their European counterparts. A number of publications – including The Sun, News of the World, The Sunday Times and Elle magazine – are appealing the decision, after ATVOD ruled they were in breach of the Communications Act 2003 by failing to notify the watchdog they were operating video on demand services. The Newspaper Society’s political, editorial and regulatory affairs director Santha Rasaiah argues that under the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive, newspapers and magazines should be expressly excluded from the regulation.

No Flies on Shameless…Announcing the UK Blu-ray release of Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet is a 1971 Italy/France giallo by Dario Argento. See IMDb To mark the Fortieth Anniversary of its production, and twenty years after the film disappeared from the public eye, Shameless Screen Entertainment are aiming to release the first ever worldwide Blu-ray of Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet – remastered in HD from the original negative by the original lab It’s all a-buzz at Shameless! After two years of behind the scene negotiations via their Italian connection, Shameless Screen Entrainment is proud to announce that they will soon release the missing Argento opus: Four Flies on Grey Velvet – or, fact fans, what more accurately should be called Four Flies of Grey Velvet – as per the literal translation of Quattro Mosche Di Velluto Grigio. It doesn’t stop there, Shameless have put their investigative caps on and – pending the availability of the original filmmaking team – they intend to discover for their fans what really happened to Dario Argento’s lost film… Four Flies on Grey Velvet will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Shameless Screen Entertainment on 5 December 2011. The film was last seen in Britain on its 1973 cinema release, which was cut by the BBFC.

Playschool Statistics…Floella Benjamin quotes bollox statistic in support of ISP internet blocking

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So 80% of 8 year olds haven’t ever seen any nudity and the rest may just have seen one nude image in their entire life. Hardly evidence of very much at all. See article from telegraph.co.uk

One in five eight-year-olds has seen nude images while surfing the internet, according to Baroness Floella Benjamin, the Liberal Democrat peer and former children’s television presenter. Lady Benjamin said children needed protection from exposure to harmful content. She called on Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, to introduce new safeguards. In a recent survey, 20 per cent of eight-year-olds said that they had seen nudity online, Lady Benjamin told peers during a House of Lords debate. She asked Baroness Rawlings, the Tory spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport: Are you aware that on the most popular websites children are exposed to advertising of an adult nature and are invited to explore links to very explicit websites? If so, will the Government consider encouraging Ofcom to take further measures to protect children and young people being targeted in this way by putting in place simple and practical steps so that online media owners can take action to prevent clear-cut examples of inappropriate content appearing in places where children are likely to see them?

What’s It Like to Ban a Film?…Huffington Post opens strongly in the UK with an interesting article by David Cooke

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See article from huffingtonpost.co.uk by David Cooke, Director of the BBFC

What’s it like to ban a film? When I used to deal with asylum cases, the courts said we had to exercise most anxious scrutiny. It’s a bit like that, however inexact the parallel. Freedom of expression is a strong human right, and it always needs a powerful balancing case to justify cuts or bans. The main instrument we use these days is the age classification system rather than censorship. And we’ve repeatedly found at the BBFC that the public overwhelmingly believes that, at the adult level, people should be free to choose whether or not to see a film, with only limited exceptions. …BUT… …Read the full article