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YouTube signs TV-content revenue deal - WSJ
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By Reuters

Published: Monday 12 February 2007

YouTube has signed a deal with Digital Music Group to post more than 4,000 hours of video content such as classic television shows to the video-sharing site, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Digital Music, an online distributor of independently owned music, TV shows and films, will receive an undisclosed portion of revenue from ads YouTube shows on the web pages featuring its programming, the WSJ said.

The programming will be free to users when it becomes available in the coming weeks, the newspaper added.

Under the deal, YouTube will also use a filtering technology to identify songs for which Digital Music controls the rights that are being used without authorisation in videos on the site, the paper said.