Verizon Wireless, YouTube ink video content agreement
A new agreement between Verizon Wireless and YouTube means that starting in December, Verizon V CAST subscribers will be able to watch videos uploaded to YouTube. The pact also enables easy uploading of videos shot on subscribers’ cell phones.
V CAST subscribers will be able to watch a limited selection of videos on YouTube, including ones [...]
“Cult” Landmark Forum sues GooTube, Internet Archive, etc.
The Landmark Forum (see background at http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html), a group related to Scientology and EST, has hit Google, YouTube and the Internet Archive with a DMCA demand. They want to know who uploaded a 2004 news program expose on their activities which led to their leaving France.
This stunning video, which had a person attend a [...]
Verizon and YouTube Talking
Verizon has been in talks with YouTube to continue working toward bringing the popular video source to their cellular service packages. Verizon hopes that YouTube will work with them on pushing the popular content on YouTube to Verizon customers via their cellphones.
This could be a great move for Verizon and could put them ahead [...]
Comedy Central clips back on YouTube
Comedy Central clips aren’t leaving YouTube for good. Viacom, Comedy Central’s corporate parent, has confirmed that it wants to find some way to keep the clips available, and has apparently given the green light for YouTube to put the material back up. No deal between the two firms has yet been done, but it sounds [...]
YouTube hopes to go mobile
YouTube Inc, the popular online video sharing site, said Wednesday it hopes to launch a service for wireless devices within a year.
Chad Hurley, YouTube chief executive and co-founder, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company.
“Within the next year we hope to have something on [...]
YouTube faces UTube lawsuit
Universal Tube, a company that sells pipe making machinery, has embarked on a lawsuit against YouTube, claiming that the video sharing site has disrupted its business thanks to the similarity in the two company’s web addresses.
Universal Tube’s website resides at www.utube.com, and it seems that plenty of wannabe YouTubers, fluent in text-speak, but less adept [...]
YouTube Removing Comedy Central Clips
YouTube has been removing all copyrighted content from the Comedy Central Network after a request was made for them to take them down. The removal includes clips of “South Park”, “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report”, among a few others.
I watched a few videos with Jon Stewart and The Colbert [...]
Viruses Making Way Into Videos
Video clips with bugs attached? That’s right. It was only a matter of time before the malicious coders out there turned to putting viruses into video clips. YouTube is not the only target, though, with so many new video sites cropping up.
More codecs are booby-trapped and some file compressors are being tainted [...]
YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims
I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon (see below) notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. If you visit YouTube, all Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips now show “This video has [...]
Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?
When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they’d also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used the phrase “litigation-laden landmine.” Part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban warned that YouTube would face the same copyright fate as Napster.
There’s only one problem with [...]
