I originally posted this at NBC, but thought I'd echo it here: http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/index.php?showtopic=811378
So I've been entertaining myself with a very relaxing saturday, looking through some of the hilarious SNL videos out there on Hulu and nbc.com
I've been working too much and missing the late night original broadcasts recently...
I just heard about Adam Sanberg's hilarious Jizz in my pants video short... watched that... and was tickled silly..
Next up was the Timberlake / Sanberg / Beyonce / Paul Rudd Single Ladies hilariousness..
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag...-is-justin.html
strangely that one has been yanked off youtube, but can still be found hosted on various sites out in the wild... Was definitely harder to find.. and I'm sure it's terribly complicated as to why that had to be yanked...
Another thing that perplexes me, is that all the fantastic musical guests seem to be left off of the video content that gets posted to hulu and nbc for the time being.
I see there are backstage "Tastes" of musical brilliance... like this...
http://www.hulu.com/watch/38083/saturday-n...age-the-killers
But unless I'm missing something, the actual Killers performance, or Arcade Fire or anybody else all seams to be nixed from the web..
I'm guessing the content gets posted to youtube and regularly taken down..
what's the rationale here? labels are worried about giving away recordings of the live performances for free? or the musical performance would require royalties per click beyond what the ad revenue supports if we were to watch it on Hulu and NBC?
Perhaps the Creative commons licensing model could be a solution to this?
http://creativecommons.org/
-Ethan
