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Jun 15, 2021 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
This morning we're hearing from senior leadership of the BBC, past and present, about the events surrounding Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview with the Princess of Wales.
🎵Katherine Oyama, YouTube
🎵Raoul Chatterjee, SoundCloud
🎵Steve Bené, Twitch twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Geoff Taylor @BPI says YouTube's ratio of risk and reward for its part in music streaming is "out of kilter" in response to Chair @julianknight15. While they are growing their business, they are only paying a tiny fraction of income generated to the music industry.
Nov 3, 2020 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
💻Today we're hearing from representatives from Amazon and YouTube about the role of video on demand services in the UK, and their relationships with the PSBs.
Georgia Brown - Director of European Originals, Amazon Studios
Chris Bird - Head of Content Europe, Amazon Prime Video
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Iain Bundred - Head of Public Policy, UK & Ireland, YouTube
Richard Lewis - Head of UK & Ireland Content Partnerships, YouTube
Nov 13, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/7 Mark Zuckerberg CEO of @facebook has declined the invitation from 5 Parliaments to give evidence on 27th November. Chair @DamianCollins' response:
2/7 “Facebook’s letter is, once again, hugely disappointing. We believe Mark Zuckerberg has important questions to answer about what he knew about breaches of data protection law involving their customers’ personal data..."