{"id":3208,"date":"2008-06-12T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2008-06-12T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T22:19:31","slug":"google-threatens-blog-for-publishing-youtube-revenue-share-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3208","title":{"rendered":"Google Threatens Blog For Publishing Youtube Revenue Share Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/5015626\/google-menaces-blog-over-publishing-youtube-contract\">From Valleywag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s lawyers usually busy themselves trying to defend their right to keep content online &mdash; so Google&#8217;s search engine can index it, of course. Odd, then, to see <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged STACEY WEXLER\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tag\/Stacey-Wexler\/\">Stacey Wexler<\/a>, litigation counsel for Google, send New York tech blog Silicon Alley Insider an email asking it to take down references to a YouTube advertising contract in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/6\/revealed_youtube_s_self_serve_ad_deal_terms_got_670_000_views\">story about the video site&#8217;s new revenue-sharing program<\/a> for ads sold by video creators. Odder still to see Silicon Alley Insider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/6\/google_to_sai_please_stop_writing_about_us\">post the email to its site, then take it down<\/a> (the site now displays an error where Wexler&#8217;s email once appeared, but the original post about YouTube remains online, and a reader has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/6\/about_com_cella_irvine\">reposted the item in a comment<\/a>). We&#8217;re puzzled about what, precisely, is so controversial about the <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/5014636\/youtube-sell-your-own-ads-give-us-some-of-the-money\">YouTube revenue-sharing program<\/a>. (Wexler claims the contract is confidential, but we don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s Silicon Alley Insider&#8217;s problem.) The contract reveals that Google will take 45 percent of ad revenues, with a minimum campaign budget of $10,000, unless otherwise negotiated. Read Wexler&#8217;s letter to Silicon Alley Insider, reproduced below, and the contract, embedded via DocStoc, and tell us which terms you think Google was most concerned about keeping private.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Valleywag: Google&#8217;s lawyers usually busy themselves trying to defend their right to keep content online &mdash; so Google&#8217;s search engine can index it, of course. Odd, then, to see Stacey Wexler, litigation counsel for Google, send New York tech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[9494,30168,9493,9492,9491,2041],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-campaign-budget","tag-google","tag-litigation-counsel","tag-silicon-alley","tag-video-creators","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}