New Delhi: Popular portal 'YouTube' has the organisers of Oscars all miffed.
The trouble began when YouTube.com defied a request by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — a professional honorary body that organises Oscars — that it remove all clips of the Sunday's Oscar telecast.
The content should be pulled out "to help manage the value of our telecast and our brand", contactmusic.com quoted Academy Executive Administrator Ric Robertson as saying.
The official website Oscar.com features only a five-minute clip of highlights from the three hour, 51 minute show.
However, clips of the telecast, including Ellen DeGeneres's opening monologue and the musical numbers, were available on YouTube.
In fact, clips of the ceremony were such a hit on the site that they received over 2,50,000 views and were among the YouTube's most-viewed content this week.
This is not the first time that a demand for removal of 'exclusive' clips has been sent the YouTube way.
Recently, Viacom demanded that the portal remove clips of its shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other properties after the two companies tried to reach an agreement.
(With agency inputs)
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