Google has vowed to take better care of copyright infringement on YouTube, the company it recently bought out for $1.65B. It is believed that many lawsuits previously were held back, because YouTube was a small, new company, but now that Google owns it, it's gloves off for the copyright enforcers.
When a comment was made about YouTube having a rule against copyright infringement, a Google representative replied that when material that infringes copyright is put onto Google Video, it is removed, but cannot speak for YouTube because the takeover of the company is not quite complete.
News source: BBC
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When a comment was made about YouTube having a rule against copyright infringement, a Google representative replied that when material that infringes copyright is put onto Google Video, it is removed, but cannot speak for YouTube because the takeover of the company is not quite complete.
News source: BBC View: YouTube View: Google
Last edited by sagy on 27 Oct 2006 - 00:30
I would expect that in about a year people will be asking, "you what?"
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Who bet?
Why not to blame who has put the video on, and not the machine who is opening the space to put videos?
With over half of the videos deleted from copyright infringements, people stopped visiting the once popular site.
. . . and another new site will pop up, be popular for a few years, be bought out, and the cycle will continue.
With over half of the videos deleted from copyright infringements, people stopped visiting the once popular site.
. . . and another new site will pop up, be popular for a few years, be bought out, and the cycle will continue.
( to get the fell of what i'm talking about go to google video and search anything, in every search some old farts will come up.....)
why cant google just leave the ste alone. I wouldnt be surprised if they merge the URL with googles and have it based off of the google core...
the cycle continues...
We have seen enough of the corporate and legal crap, and that innovation get killed by them.
that the show continues.
off topic but: same as napster explosion, got lot's of counterparts, and look what we have now. limewire. =)
i doubt they will
From a business perspective it makes sense. If you owned Google, you'd want to avoid numerous copyright lawsuits which are posted in the media, ending up giving negative impressions to you investors.
I'm sure if neowin made serious money, they too would start looking at all the copyright violations going on (I.E. member's avatars and photos used, use of corporate identity logos without permission) and put an end to it.
did you guys ever watch his videos and think "this guy thinks he the king of YouTube" ...well I did!!! annoying piece of shallot!
OH MAN and his latest video trying to be all serious about child sexual abuse when he puts a picture of his daughter as the thumbnail?!
............ok sorry this isnt the place. I'll stop ranting.
Try this Firefox extension....
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Those deals effectively proved that video sites could effectively work with the copyright holders instead of against. And I'm sure that played a role in what Google offered. Sure there will be lawsuits, but the end result after those are filed & then negotiated will probably be more deals like the one's YouTube made before.
now...what do we get? 5 minutes of CBS crap. and how about commenting on how crap it was, you say? no, you can't even do that..because CBS isn't even game enough to let people comment on the videos.
if that's what YouTube is going to become then I'm not going to be a part of it.
don't even get me started on the stupid amateur videos in YouTube...the only reason I watched them is to kill time until another Colbert episode was posted or a TV drama I watched... and when I did watch the amateurs I'd just post some comment on how much their stupid video sucked. they're thinking they're "stars" now that they're popular on a huge site like YouTube, but they're just fillers for all the good stuff we used to get.
let's just sit now and watch YouTube drop like a dead fly.
With that said, Google does indeed have less copyrighted content in its video archive than YouTube, but that doesn't make them any less innocent than its competitor.
There are several videos on Google Video that not only infringe copyright, but also break NDA's written by game developers. If Google is going to provide a place to view videos, whether it's through YouTube or their own Google Video website, they should review the videos to make sure the content in the videos don't break any kind of NDA or infringe copyright
Last edited by Mistwaver on 30 Oct 2006 - 21:48
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