Dude, That Is SO Not Funny!!
Oh gosh; the internet video! People at work clicking all day long watching various videos of "fad" like videos. However, it's interesting to note some things that goes back to our old discussion of copyright and such with the internet.
According to the article, Eric Bauman has been receiving death threats, and has sites against him, claiming that he steals work from others and makes money, by putting cooky videos, images, and jokes onto his website that he's found elsewhere; his site gets 1.2 million visitors a day.
With google taking over YouTube, couldn't they then say they "own" the videos on their site? I'm not sure what the deatils are of uploading videos to YouTube, but in someway, can't the material become someone else's property?
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posted by adsfasdfasdfasdfasdf at 5:59 PM
2 Comments:
I kind of thought about that, too. If google isn't going to own all those videos on Youtube, why is google spending so much money buying the site? Or is google is trying to control online videos?
By uploading on to the site, is the orginal poster giving or sharing the copyright, too?
2:39 PM
I have mixed feelings about that guy using other peoples videos and clips on his Web site and makeing money off of them.
He kind of was technically stealing. But, the internet is a little like the old west. A lot of land and only a few who don't want to keep it wild.
10:10 PM
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