A dispute between social networking website MySpace and photo and video-sharing website Photobucket has apparently ended, allowing users of both services to once again display content on their MySpace pages.
"Following discussions with MySpace, we're pleased to announce that all Photobucket videos and remixes are enabled once more on MySpace with immediate effect. Both our companies are committed to putting our users first," Photobucket CEO and co-founder Alex Welch wrote in a post to his company's blog on Monday.
Earlier in April, News Corp.-owned MySpace blocked Photobucket users' photo slideshows, videos and "remixes" — user-created videos that feature content supplied by a third party such as a movie studio or recording label — from appearing on MySpace pages.
MySpace had objected to the use of imagery from the upcoming Spiderman 3 movie in user-made photo slideshows that were being posted on their MySpace pages.
The arm of Fox Interactive Media said they constituted ads that violated its user policy.
"Photobucket recently began running an ad-sponsored slideshow and encouraged users to post these ads in bulletins and profiles throughout the community," MySpace said in a written statement on April 11. "We spoke to the company about their actions, but they refused to respect our community's terms and we had no choice but to disable their service.
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That won't be a problem in the future, Photobucket's Alex Welch said in his blog post on Monday.
"Moving forward, we've established open lines of communication and procedures with MySpace to prevent a sudden block of Photobucket content in the future," Welch wrote. "We want our users to be able to share their content and understand it must be within the framework of MySpace's Terms of Service for it to appear on the site.
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Spokespeople for MySpace and Photobucket could not be immediately reached for comment.
Photobucket says its website receives 17.6 million unique visitors a month, 40 million registered users and 80,000 new registered users daily.
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