YouTube API: 'Official' Tag

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When you search for a music video on YouTube, there often appears a video tagged 'Official' in the results. Example:

Example

Is there a way to retrieve this flag by an API call?

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEOID?v=2 does not have any field that might indicated such a tag.

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This is such a new feature on Youtube, thats why they didn't update their API yet. Take a look here: code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html , this is the list of all youtube API features. It may help. - Cyclone
@Raj , Replace the VIDEOID with the video code from the URL I guess. - Cyclone

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IMO, official is not per song, but per channel. In acdcVEVO's user profile, you can see its channel type set to "Musician". Most users are "Standard".