News sites, White House in dogfight over 'BarneyCam' video
The White House has in the past claimed exclusive online rights to its popular 'BarneyCam' videos, and last December it distributed it to TV stations but not Web sites, insisting news sites link to the video on WhiteHouse.gov, CNET.com reported.
This may sound like a silly thing to fight over, but last year the holiday Barney video got viewed 24 million times on the White House site -- a lot of potential ad revenue.
This year, washingtonpost.com went ahead and posted the new video. No word, so far, on whether the site is in the doghouse...
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