iLike does the YouTube thing
Over at techcruch I see that iLike has added YouTube videos to their website. Click on a song and you not only get the option to preview an audio clip or buy the song from iTunes or Amazon - you can now watch a related YouTube video. That's pretty cool. I think these sorts of things really help the music exploration process.
I wonder, however, if iLike has made an arrangement with YouTube. Their usage of YouTube videos seems to violate the YouTube terms of service:
YouTube provides an "Embeddable Player" feature, which you may incorporate into your own personal, non-commercial websites for use in accessing the materials on the Website, provided that you include a prominent link back to the YouTube website on the pages containing the Embeddable Player.IANAL but it would seem to me that iLike's site is a commercial website (presumably they are making money - perhaps via iTunes/Amazon referrals) which would violate the non-commerial TOS (nevermind that they don't have the prominent link back to YouTube). So perhaps they have a commercial arrangement with YouTube - or perhaps they are just hoping to fly under YouTube's radar.
Posted by Stephan on November 09, 2006 at 10:04 AM EST #