04-13-2006, 08:06 AM
Quote:POPULAR video blogs will be subject to new European regulations if Brusselss proposals to update television regulation are adopted by Europes member states...
The Commission said that blogs could be caught by the new rules if they had a commercial purpose, where video was the main element. A blog also has to be popular enough to count as mass media.
That could encompass any successful video blog that takes advertising. Many bloggers try to earn extra money by hosting adverts, supplied by Google or another internet broker, and the number of sites caught by the proposed rules is likely to be substantial...
full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-2131768.html