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Wilderness Films partners with Google Video Please note: Wilderness Films India Ltd. had a very successful run on Google Video, until 2007 when we found our content being illegally loaded onto YouTube and other video sharing sites. Despite a series of copyright notifications to YouTube and Google Video, our content continued to be displayed on YouTube, and does so till date. WFIL has lost over 250 million page views of content onto YouTube, without legal authorization from our company, including one of the Top Ten Viral videos of all time, to which WFIL owns the exclusive copyright. While WFIL seeks legal recourse for the same, we have removed all our content from Google Video and pulled out of our revenue share arrangements with them. This Press Release is thus of an archival nature, since our content is no longer present on the site. Google to Launch Video Marketplace "Google Video will let you watch lots of high quality video on the web for the first time. You can search and browse, and we make it fast and easy for you to watch," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president, Products... Available soon, people who visit the Google Video homepage at http://video.google.com will be able to browse listings of video by category from the store or search Google's entire collection of videos by simply entering keywords into the search box. Additional highlights of Google's video collection will include: Music videos from SONY BMG. Historic, news and educational footage from ITN. Clips from Getty Images' Archive Films Collection. There will be thousands of titles for sale in the Google Video store with more titles added everyday. The list of content producers will also include ... Wilderness Films India Ltd. A new year for Google Video Till now, Google Video has been about watching videos and clips online, which is really convenient ... But wouldn't it be awesome to watch that episode of CSI that you missed when even your trusty DVR failed you? This is one reason we've launched the Google Video store, where you can rent or buy from such well-known media partners as CBS, the NBA, The Charlie Rose Show, and SONY BMG. We’re not only about mainstream content, though – we have thousands of titles available (and more coming every day) from every imaginable type of producer, including this 1896 clip of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II – one of the earliest known moving images. We’re especially pleased to offer such quality indie features as Ben Rekhi’s Waterborne (Drops Entertainment) and Lerone Wilson’s Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks (Boondoggle Films). You can play all the videos you download using the all-new Google Video Player. We're especially pleased about the thumbnail navigation for browsing an entire video so you can play any portion with a single click. And there's another thing: if the content is not copy-protected, you can take your favorite videos with you on your iPod or PSP -- our "to go" option. Since it's so early in the year, here's a resolution we intend to keep: make sure new features and content continue to roll out, so that you think Google Video is one of the best ways to find video on the web. These video providers are getting us off to a great start: • WFIL: Wilderness Films India Ltd. is a leading producer and library of stock footage captured in India and across Asia. WFIL will offer 100 hours of high quality video, both free and for sale, on Google Video. Topics vary from helicopter skiing in the Himalaya, broadcast coverage of an Everest climb, and rare wildlife such as the Takin and the Clouded Leopard to imagery spanning India's art, culture, technology, peoples, cities, and rural areas. 1/09/2006 10:16:00 PM |
