Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Interent video CC

Not all, as I understand it (and I don't understand it that deeply). Here's a recent RBR story on the topic:

FCC adopts closed captioning protocol for internet video
http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/fcc-adopts-closed-captioning-protocol-for-internet-video.html

Here's the FCC's Rule and Order (along with statements from a couple commissioners):
http://www.fcc.gov/document/closed-captioning-internet-protocol-delivered-video-programming-0

But in Washington nothing is inevitable... Other than bickering. Check out this just-posted TV Tech article:

Churches File for New Closed-Caption Exemptions
October order vacated basis of previous exemptions

WASHINGTON: Around 80 religious programmers have filed for new financial-hardship exemptions from closed-captioning rules. The Federal Communications Commission changed the qualifications for exemptions last October, and notified 590 programmers they would have to file new petitions for exemptions granted under rules established in 2006. The deadline for those petitions was last Wednesday. Those who failed to petition the FCC for a new exemption had to start providing closed captions by the next day, Thursday, Jan. 19.

[then some useful background and explication..Then at the end of the article...]

Under the commission's revised criteria, exemptions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. It will consider the duration of each exemption likewise.

"In this regard, the commission recognized that 'changes in technology, the economics of captioning or the financial resources of a video programming provider may affect the justification of an undue burden exemption' over time," the FCC October order stated.

Rest of their story:
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/churches-file-for-new-closed-caption-exemptions/211511

Jim "ya, this is a weird way to spend my lunch hour" Feeley
jfeeley@gmail.com

On Jan 25, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Curtis Nichols wrote:

> I've mostly escaped having to deal with the Closed Captioning process over the course of my career. But from what I'm reading lately, it is inevitable. Am I reading correctly that beginning this coming July all video distributed on U.S.-based internet sites will be required to provided closed captioning? Religious. Educational. Professional tutorials. Corporate promotional & training.
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> Curtis Nichols
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