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- Google at Risk: YouTube class action lawsuit changes DMCA copyright game
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., a copyright infringement class action pending in the United States...
- Tags: game, YouTube Inc., class action, William Hart, Google Inc., DMCA
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- YouTube hosts Authors @ Google: Beware, NO talking back!
- YouTube’s top marketing exec Suzie Reider is fond of extolling the real “conversations” that YouTube hosted videos spark amongst YouTubers, warning prospective marketers not to “mess up” the “authentic” YouTube community.Why then does Google not wish to spark authentic conversation around its own videos that it posts to YouTube?Google proudly...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Social Media, Google, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- Google's YouTube: Not so dirty little secrets
- Why was Google CEO Eric Schmidt so ecstatic Thursday? Because he reported $3.66 billion in quarterly revenues to Wall Street, all fueled by advertising cum content.Google’s secret weapon is a four letter word I have oft said: SPIN. The most lucrative Googley spin of all? People WANT Google ads,...
- Tags: Google, Advertising, YouTube, Video, Google Ads, Culture, Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-21
- Google, YouTube double down on user tracking, DoubleClick next up
- Do you want Google to track, record and archive, on their servers, every move you make on the Web? Google is betting that you do with its new "Web History" Web activity "manager": View and search across the full text of the pages youve visited, including Google searches, web pages,...
- Tags: YouTube, Privacy, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Google cash-free caching gets boost with 'Webmaster Tools'
- “Requesting removal from our index,” begins Google’s Vanessa Fox, to the kudos of colleague Matt Cutts. Should the Web’s content owners really rejoice though because Google’s “Webmaster Central” has posted page after page of specs detailing complex technology options only available to those with a Google “Webmasters Tools”...
- Tags: Legal, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!
- The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, TV, Television, ROI, Profits, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- YouTube: Why Google fears $1 billion Unsafe Harbor
- Using the leverage of the Internet, YouTube appropriates the value of creative content on a massive scale for YouTube’s benefit without payment or license, so says Viacom’s $1 billion civil “complaint” against now Defendant Google. Is Viacom off the mark? Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in fact, espouses a similar...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube&rsquo, s benefit, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Keep this post: here's the full text AND meat of Viacom's complaint against Google-YouTube
- Most of the text, anyway.Ive skipped the more arcane legalese. Even so, this is a very long post. But this $1 billion tiff (argument, not the graphics format) is a major event in the history of the Web. This dispute will be with us for awhile, so I hope...
- Tags: INTERNET, Intellectual property, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- World of Wordcraft: featuring Viacom vs. Google lawyers
- OK, lets go to the battlefield and listen in on what Viacom is saying in conjunction with their $1 billion, 160,000-clip, 1.6 billion views, lawsuit against Google and its YouTube site:“YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Google Inc., Viacom Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Excerpts from Viacom's scathing YouTube complaint
- Viacom filed a complaint against Googles YouTube and it isnt pretty. Whether Viacom is looking for leverage, a test of copyright law or the end of YouTube isnt exactly clear.One thing is certain: Viacom doesnt pull punches. GoogleWatch cooked up 18 reasons why Viacom is screaming about YouTube. The complaint...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Why Google needs Viacom, big time!
- John Battelle to Big Media on Googles YouTube: “Forget the deal.” Battelle’s latest “old media doesn’t get it” piece is a rambling follow-up to a Mark Cuban verdict that old media hasn’t figured things out, YouTube things that is. Battelle’s confidence in his lack of confidence in mega...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Movies, ROI, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- YouTube scores NBA deal
- Do you dream about being the next Michael Jordan? You can have your basketball shot at clip-culture fame courtesy of the NBA and YouTube:“Post Up the NBA” debuts on the new “NBA Channel” on YouTube to “provide fans around the world and the entire YouTube community with the opportunity to...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Search, Advertising, Web 2.0, Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?
- Nicholas Carr underscores that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each pulled down about a third of a billion dollars in selling their video-sharing company to the search giant Google, asserting they “came by their windfall fair and square.”How so? “They built a better mousetrap,” says Carr.Perhaps, but what...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Search, Google, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- Can Google buy its way to future success?
- Google is not a one-trick pony, but is it a one-trick thouroughbred? Google must diversify beyond its sole reliance on monetization via search and search advertising in order to maintain, let alone grow, its $150 billion market cap. Google CEO Eric Schmidt put forth to Wall Street just...
- Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, ecommerce, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Print, Radio, Search, Search Advertising, VC, Venture Capital
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Google vs. Viacom: Good cop, bad cop?
- The “Online video game: ‘technically illegal’ musical chairs” continues. I presented and analyzed at length yesterday the Google YouTube video game with television networks in “Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC.”Fair or not fair, safe or not safe? The “fair use,” “safe harbor,” online video game is becoming...
- Tags: Advertising, Business Models, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Legal, ROI, Television, TV, Viacom Inc., Video, YouTube, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-04
- Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC
- Way back in November I underscored “Google’s fuzzy YouTube logic.”In “Google to TV networks: Believe in YouTube” I analyzed how Google made its mark at YouTube, a PR mark, just one week after officially taking over the YouTube reigns. In a joint announcement with CBS, Google did what it excels...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- Is the Google YouTube honeymoon over?
- Readers of this Digital Markets Blog know I have been putting forth that the Google YouTube DMCA inspired content is free for the talking, unless proven otherwise, game could not continue indefinitely.Amidst the Chad Hurley induced euphoria over supposed video wealth sharing last week, I underscored the reality of the...
- Tags: Google, Video, YouTube, Google Software Applications, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Can YouTube make revenue sharing work?
- In the recent Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the “little” video people that is, many celebrated a seemingly greater democratization of Web 2.0. As in all democracies, however, the Web 2.0 variety has a messy underbelly of conflicting motivations and inherent obstacles....
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Will YouTube 'King Hurley' really share video riches?
- YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley & Steve Chen celebrated their $1.65 billion buyout by Google in a giddy “broadcast yourself” YouTube clip culture video proclaiming the joining together of two Internet “kings.”The two kings are currently being feted on the international stage at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 convened...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, Search Advertising, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Is YouTube really a $1.65 billion Web 2.0 success?
- Is Chad Hurley the poster “king” for Web 2.0 entrepreneurial success?Does the YouTube “story” reflect a Web 2.0 start-up model to be emulated? Googles $1.65 billion stock acquisition of the free-for-all, no fees required, online video hosting property undoubtedly leads most to shout a resounding NEED YOU ASK!NewTeeVee says...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
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