:: Eurovision 24 :: Oslo 2010

As some may know already, Google is celebrating ten years since the launch of their search engine in 1998. As part of their celebrations, Google launched a sub section of the search engine back in 2001 , which shows the results you would have gotten back in that year. Pictured: ESC Today logo back in 2001. 2001 was very different to today, internet wise. Remember there was no "You Tube" or "Wikipedia" back then. Here at Eurovision 24, we said we would have a little fun and do a bit of Eurovision searching of our own. We searched for the " Eurovision Song Contest " and we would see what it would bring up. First to come top of the search results is songcontest.nl , a website popular at the time, but has not been updated for quite some time. For some unusual reason, there was no mention of www.songcontest.com , the official website for Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Denmark. Remember the official Eurovision Song Contest website Eurovision.tv , did not exist...

DR has been found not guilty in a case regarding rightful credit in relation to the postcards used for the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest held in Copenhagen। DR was originally found guilty, but an appeal court has now decided in favour of the Danish broadcaster. DR had hired an external producer for the postcards, but they did not credit every single person that in some way had been involved in making the postcards shown in between the songs। From the producer they had received a long list with the names of everyone involved. DR however returned the list saying which ones they did not have to give credit to according to the law of copyright. This included a helicopter pilot! One of the ones not being given credit contacted DR insisting to have his name mentioned. DR then asked for further information about what this person exactly had been doing, information they never received and therefore this person was not being given credit. “Film – og TV arbejderforbundet” (Film and TV worker unio...