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YouTube, WMG agree on new licensing deal Content returning to video site after nine-month absence By Antony Bruno, Billboard Sept 29, 2009, 05:34 PM ET DENVER -- YouTube and Warner Music Group made it official today, announcing a new content licensing deal that will bring the label's content back to the popular video streaming service after a nine-month absence. The main difference of the new deal is that Warner will now be the one selling advertising around its videos rather than YouTube. This will allow the label to set its own prices for those advertisements as well as keep the majority of the ad revenues that result. YouTube will receive an undefined cut of all revenue under the terms of the agreement. "We feel this is a sustainable model that works for both parties," says YouTube head of music Chris Maxcy. "It puts control and success of their future in their own hands." Sources close to the deal say Warner plans to partner with other companies on the ad sales activity rather than hire a sales team in house. In order to help create a premium environment around which to sell these ads, YouTube will allow Warner to create custom channels within the service dedicated solely to Warner artists. "Members of the YouTube community will not only be able to access videos and other music-related content from Warner Music Group recording artists and songwriters, but will also gain access to an enhanced user experience on YouTube with a feature-rich, high-quality premium player and enhanced channels," read a statement sent by Warner as the deal was announced. The label will populate these channels with higher-quality video than is usually found on YouTube, and the two are developing some kind of branding presence that would help identify Warner videos from others, although exactly what that will look like is not yet clear. Sources say Warner wants to include more commerce and social networking capabilities to a premium video player YouTube is creating for the label. This could include direct links to the artist Web sites, buy links and chat capabilities in addition to the premium ad space and other details. Whether YouTube users will be able to embed Warner music videos from YouTube on other Web sites like they can now with regular videos has not yet been determined. Sources say if the premium experience can't be replicated through the embedding process, it may not be allowed. YouTube users will be able to include Warner music in the videos they submit as well, around which the label can also sell ads if it chooses. Neither party would comment on whether an upfront payment was an element of the deal. User-generated YouTube videos will not appear on the premium video player being created for music videos. But fans will have to wait for Warner's music videos to appear on YouTube before they can include the label's songs in their own videos, as the label wants to launch its music simultaneously across the service. Warner pulled its music from YouTube last December. The label was the first to license its music to YouTube when the service first started negotiating with the music industry back in 2006. However when it came time to renegotiate that deal, Warner wanted to see more money coming in from YouTube that the company was willing to pay, leading to Warner's decision to withhold content from the service. According to Maxcy, the new deal includes both recorded music and publishing rights through Warner Chappell. The comprehensive nature of the licensing deal added to the time needed to complete it, Maxcy says, adding that CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. was directly involved in the negotiations. Warner's music videos begin appearing back on YouTube in the months ahead, a process that YouTube expects will take the remainder of the year to complete. That includes the time it takes WMG to ingest its videos into the YouTube system, as well as the time it will take YouTube to finish building the premium video player and ad platform. Getting its music back on the Google-owned video service is critical for Warner, given YouTube's sheer dominance of the online video space. According to ComScore, YouTube generated 10 billion streams in August from U.S. users alone. That's about 40% of the online video market.

Good Work! Don't forget Tatsu & Orient Express! Although Psyclone is no longer with us, it's still a built-in RCT2 Six Flags coaster! Have you enabled the export plugin objects option? I back everything up with a Maxtor OneTouch 4 external HDD!

Happy 4th birthday Goliath!

2 new Happy Tree Friends characters (Lammy & Truffes) were about to join... But Mondo Media lied! The whole new character thing with the voting and everything was just a great big April Fool’s hoax! And a pretty good one wouldn’t you say? Yeah, it took a lot of work and a whole month to set up to pull off, but we think it was worth it. There’s no way we would be able to introduce any new characters after all this time. It would disrupt the delicate balance of things in the Happy Tree world… and c’mon a pickle? Really, do you think we would have a character that carried around a pickle? Even we have standards. Anyways, Happy Tree Friends is 10 YEARS OLD!! Sugary sweet and fragile since the Millenium Bug!

Here's the biggest April Fools joke! ENJOY!

Kirby will be turning 20 in 2012! Thus, Nintendo's favourite pink puff ball will be strong enough to save the world!

The world as we know it is in for some dramatic and devastating changes. Explore the possibilities, see what others believe! http://www.december212012.com Opinions please!

I remember seeing this episode on VHS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzcFkVB98T4

Make sure you back everything up if probems arise!

For those of you who live in the Metropolitan area, and are Yankees fans, I have some sad news to give. If anyone doesn't know about the history of the original Yankees Stadium, here's a little info: The original Yankees Stadium opened in 1923 and was drastically altered in the 1970's for renovations where almost everything was altered... Except one thing. Gate 2 was basically untouched from renovation for whatever reason, and stayed the same look for the whole span of Yankees Stadium life. In 2008 when demolition began on the old Yankees Stadium an organization formed to stop the demolition of Gate 2 because of it's historic value. They (we) tried and tried to keep the gate and make it the entrance to a park, but the Parks Service turned us down after multiple efforts. It all ended today when bulldozers came to the gate that had been untouched for almost 90 years, and tore it down. This is truly a sad day for anyone who helped out with the cause and Yankee fans. Here's a picture from this morning's demolition to the gate: http://demolitionofyankeestadium.com/index.php?showimage=188 RIP Yankee Stadium Gate 2!

The cameras that I currently use are a Nintendo DSi for pictures and a Panasonic VDR-D150 DVD camcorder for filming (both of them don't have flash unfortunately ). Which camera do you currently use for pictures & filming?

Will your new laptop have Windows 7 and Intel Core 2 Extreme?

Users with suspended (terminated) accounts may have their access 'nuked', which means they are prohibited from creating any new accounts or accessing YouTube's community. The only way to 'unsuspend' is to resolve at least one of these penalties before your account can be reinstated. You may be able to resolve at least one of the following video removals by filing a counter-notification. Keep in mind that there are major legal penalties for sending an invalid or bad-faith counternotice.

I used to be known as 'ryanthescooterguy', but it was suspended due to copyright strikes! It used to have videos about samples used by DJs!

A quick tutorial on how to install custom coasters to RCT3! It worked for me in the first time! The coaster train goes to c:/programfiles/atari/RollerCoasterTycoon3/cars/coastercars The track goes to c:/programfiles/atari/RollerCoasterTycoon3/tracks/coasters I hope this should work for those with difficulties...

Has anyone heard of the 'Eclipsce Digital Trainer' for RCT2? I've used it once, and it had some cool features including the ability to make the park rating stay at 999!

Is SFKK biting the dust at the moment? The future sure looks grim...

Ccron10, If you have an external HDD (e.g. a Maxtor OneTouch 4), like I have, then make sure you back everything up!

Any pics of the real thing for reference would be appriciated! Here's some:

If Intimidator 305 opens on April Fool's day ( ) and we try to view a YouTube video of it's opening, it would redirect us into the RickRolled video!

Haven't rode a coster for a long time... In 2007, Adelaide's Mad Mouse had its last rides before being dismantled & sold and I had a chance to go on it! It was pretty scary with all those dips & turns!

Has anyone found any 'Rock 'N' Rollercoaster' objects for RCT2? My W.I.P. RNRC recreation wouldn't be complete without them!

Will you be using the Cadillac Ride from WW to make the trains with? I do hope so. They would look more like the real coaster train used on the ride. If you don't have WW I found a site that has a non-WW version. Certainly, I am using the limousine coaster, which is very similar to the real thing!

Thanks! It generally takes 2 hours and 40 minutes!

Remember 'Wet Willy's Waterslide' in Fenton, MO (Missouri)? Wet Willy's closed down, not because of the competition from Six Flags new water park but because of the splashdown pool. Supposedly someone came down the speed slide too fast and the splashdown pool wasn't big enough to slow them down and they slammed into the stairs head first and passing away as a result of the injuries. It's now graffitied all over!