Youtube is removing copyrighted clips, specificially from Comedy Central. Obviously a result of the Google purchase since there is now money to be had for suing for copyright infringement, at least partially.
The site late last week began purging copyrighted material from Comedy Central.The action was "a result of third-party notification by Comedy Central," according to one such e-mail message sent to a YouTube user, Jeff Reifman, who broke the news on the Web site NewsCloud.
A week earlier, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers cited copyright infringement.
Youtube isn't the only site that's starting to crack down on copyright infringement either. Myspace is going to clamp down on infrigement through a deal with digital entertainment company, Gracenote. The agreement will detect and block copyrighted music that is placed on its site.
For both sites the move is in response to efforts to create deals with media firms and the legal owners to share revenues.
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Youtube always removed copyrighted clips. The problem is that youtube - much like Yahoo owned flickr and similar community-upload-"your"-stuff places - demand that the copyright holder contact them about the clip and prove that they are the copyright holder, sign it electronically or send snailmail etc and so on, the whole nine yards. That's completly opposite of how copyright should work. You are placing the burdon of proof upon the owner, when you should be placing the burdon of proof upon the uploader. I've gotten youtube to remove clips that were copyrighted by telling the copyright holder and then they jumped through all the hoops as outlined on youtube's site - and the clips were removed. They were re-posted mere secods later by another youtube user so the copyright holder had to go through all that rubbish again. And again. And again. Broken system man. The big gun copyright holders, such as movie studios, TV channels etc have lawyers on their payroll, thus time and money to get things removed or threaten with a day in court. Who this really hurts is us.Photographers, editors, budding directors, animators, artists and creatives of all kinds who's work may be hijacked and posted to youtube without your consent. Most of us don't have time to get youtube to take it down when we are busy making ends meet. So it would be nice if people respected copy right (that is, the right to copy and repost).
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I'm all for people retaining control over the materials they have created. Youtube was created as a free for all copyright ignoring place. It simply cannot function or exist under the rules eveyone else has to follow. It's over.
Nobody will go back when it re-launches itself as sanitized, controlled corporate bullshit under the guise of being of the people for the people etc etc. And nobody should. It's going to be a useless site.
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