YouTube cleaning up its act+some free advice

News Type: Opinion — Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:25 PM EST

technology, video, youtube, copyright, snl, ip, lazy-sunday

YouTube is cleaning up its act: "we're constantly trying to balance the rights of copyright owners with the rights of our users." Smart move for them to limit the length of videos... now, how about they do a search for SNL and Chappelle and just turn off the videos they know are not their property? Why don't they let ABC and NBC executives go into the system and turn off content they know is being stolen? That is the ultimate solution... that is what I would do. Also, if you let someone at NBC turn off stuff themselves they can't complain about you not doing it fast enough, and you can track what they turn off so they don't do something fishy (like turn off competitors shows). If they abuse this ability to turn off stuff you take away their account.

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Matt May

Content owners don't get that kind of control because they are guaranteed to abuse it.

Say Cheney goes off the deep end on Meet the Press. It's a story with massive political implications. You upload a specific exchange to YouTube which falls well within fair use criteria: non-profit, in the public interest, and a reasonably small sample of the whole work. Gong. NBC will knock it down. They'd pray for that kind of control, because they wouldn't have to argue their case when they do something that goes too far. There must be a disinterested party involved in these situations, and today, they're the ones wearing black robes.

So, okay. The Lazy Sunday thing was a copyright violation. The increased audience that NBC received for the work doesn't excuse that. But fair use rights do exist, and they are not subject to whims of the rightsholder. Let them flag content for immediate review by a third party? Sure. Let them delete content unilaterally? Never.

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#1 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:20 PM EST

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James Bennett

Well, there's the abuse thing, and there's the fact that in the case of SNL NBC's legal department was demanding the removal of content that had been uploaded by NBC's PR department. Maybe a requirement that your corporate left hand know what your corporate right hand is doing before you fire off the legal nastygrams would be good...

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#2 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:55 PM EST

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StephanieBamBam

If youtube starts checking anything (which would include nbc/abc) they become responsible for everything - I don't think they want that kind of responsibility. Imagine the lawsuits that could follow...

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#3 - Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:19 PM EST

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