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Old 10th March 2007, 03:08 AM   #1 (permalink)
Ekka
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Default YouTube's getting banned and sued!

Lets see, Turkey, Brazil, Victoria Australia ... where next?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1483840.ece

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...?eref=rss_tech

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-th...-_e_38136.html

but then unbanned in Brazil moments later http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/01...ml#skip300x250

Here's some cases where it's breached copyright and getting sued.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060718-7285.html

http://www.reelpopblog.com/2007/01/a_brief_guide_t.html

And what some are doing is getting a subpoena against Youtube to reveal the identities of the persons uploading material then suing them.

But it appears some of the large music makers are working with YouTube for a fair deal and gonna let off the amatuer video makers using their music for their videos in return for some advertising revenue.

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/arch..._googleyo.html

And from here http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Stor...=mktw&dist=nbs
Quote:
That YouTube chose to turn over the data, rather than simply remove the offending video from its site -- as it did Friday when it agreed to take down 30,000 videos at the request of a group of Japanese media companies -- came as a surprise to copyright experts.
So the heat is on, copyrighted material, defamation, breaking laws of countries like insulting Turks etc. The pulling of 30,000 Japanese videos means something too.

I read on many places I visited that adding music to your video clips is small fry and chances are no-ones going to persue it ... however that depends on the content of the video too I bet and if you're making money out of it.
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