EMI Gets State Farm To Sponsor Embedding Ok Go Video -- But Shou...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 02/22/2010 - 18:16

We were just writing -- yet again -- about EMI's short-sighted decision to block all embedding of Ok Go's videos (even ones that the band produced entirely on their own).

This is despite the fact that it was the widespread embedding of the famed treadmill video that helped Ok Go become as well known as it has -- earning EMI a lot of money.

Now comes the news of a "resolution" to the issue, as EMI will allow an...

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