BBC iPlayer
BBC director general Mark Thompson and Google’s Eric Schmidt are in talks to bring the iPlayer for the international audience.
According to the report published in the daily Telegraph, some sources near to Thompson have confirmed that BBC and Google are looking for an international service that will be linked up with YouTube.
The way it’s going to work is not clear yet, however, BBC has recently raised its partnership with video sharing website YouTube as well.
The broadcasting company has just announced that their BBC Earth nature channel clips can now be seen their BBC owned channel on youTube.
The speculation hasn’t been denied by a spokesperson from BBC, but he admitted that there are many obstacles in the way to extend this service in many other countries of the world, and the biggest hurdle in this connection is clearance of international rights.
“There are, indeed, some specific difficulties because of these hurdles and that’s what hiders the plans for an international BBC iPlayer, however, there are many other BBC Worldwide that allows audience to watch BBC content.
DRM is the main thing because of which iPlayer is going to work with the BBC. The shows sometimes disappear on the service and then the content can be sold again on stuff like DVDs, whatever they do to bring their long form content on the web and it can definitely be a good thing for the company.
