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Originally Posted by RazorSharpe
Hi rastan,
I've briefly spoken to you about being atvod compliant in another thread but had a question for you. Did you seek advice from a solicitor on whether you need to comply with atvod or did you simply just decide you wanted to be compliant?
Reason I ask is because I am wrestling with this myself and have gone over their guidelines and seen this:
http://atvod.co.uk/uploads/files/Gui...une_2012.p df
So it is my understanding that one must meet not just one or two of the above criteria, but ALL of them.
Did you find that you met all of the criteria and your sites fell under the guidelines that required you to comply?
Regards |
Hey fella,
well, in answer to your questions, no I didnt seek a solicitors advice - I'd love to spend time and try and argue the toss with ATVOD, but I don't have the time, $$$ or indeed will to fight on it when others in the same business have had to fall in line. My sites got caught almost in the second wave of their scouring of the internet, and some of the bigger players had already been forced to comply. Or rather, those who fell foul of all four of their criteria, did.
In answer to your second point as to whether I met all the criteria- yes Im afraid I did. The question about what qualifies as `video on demand` could be construed as a matter for conjecture. But again, if more established players than I have been forced to comply having similar website businesses, then I felt I might as well fall in line and see how it worked out.
Believe me, I explored options about moving our business overseas to get over this hurdle, but one-by-one the options closed down, or became unaffordable.
Its not an ideal situation, and it *HAS* negatively affected my business, thats for sure. *BUT* overall, We're slightly better off financially than we were at the same point as we were last year, we have a bigger stable of properties and a better platform to build on. I suppose to contrast that with the amount of programs that have closed THIS YEAR alone, we must be doing an awful lot right.
Those lovely people at ATVOD [
for the guys from the US, that there was IRONY! 
] shouldn't cause you too many headaches in your busines, IF you leave no stone unturned in your quest for cash. if it helps, look at it as a sort of corporation tax bill thats not related to profit, and hand over the cash.
Good luck bro!