Oscars clips yanked off YouTube

The Academy issued a DMCA request and YouTube complied by pulling down clips of Sunday’s Academy Awards show, which featured Ellen’s opening monologue and the entertaining bit by Will Ferrell and Jack Black, among others. Meanwhile, the highly-promoted Oscar.com features a single five-minute highlight clip and some backstage video, but nothing more from the 4-hour show. When asked, Academy executive Ric Robertson said there were no plans to post more clips on Oscars.com, and the current clips will eventually vanish to “whet people’s appetite for next year’s show.” Um. Will someone remind Robertson that the networks have proven over and over again that posting video online increases demand for the same show on TV, not supresses it. But hey, it’s the Academy. Would you expect anything more?