Hollywood stars pass studios, go directly to YouTube? - VentureBeat
Thu, Jan 29th, 2009
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Google still hasn’t figured out a way to make money from YouTube, but that isn’t stopping the insanely popular online video service from signing interesting deals left and right. The latest involves the William Morris Agency, one of Hollywood’s top talent agencies. And it could alter the way artists get paid for content - and the web’s role in providing it.
Specifically, the deal would allow William Morris clients to bypass movie studios and television networks for content they wanted to create and immediately put on the web, reports The New York Times...
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