It has been a year since the FCC published updated guidelines pertaining to the closed captioning requirements for online video clips. The notice specified that excerpts of full-length video programming captioned for broadcast in the U.S. and posted via the video programming provider or distributor’s website or app would need to have captions present.
This only applied to single excerpts, or single “straight-lift clips” from a full-length program.
In that announcement, the FCC also marked January 1, 2017 as the date that this law will extend to “montages,” or edits composed of multiple single excerpts (“straight-lift clips”). For example, an hour-long talk show that aired on television may appear as multiple segments on the web afterwards – say, abridged interviews of each of the guests. Those clips, all stemming from the original full-length program, will now be expected to be captioned. Continue reading