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EMI Music spins Google YouTube song and dance

Just as Internet Kings Chad Hurley and Eric Schmidt were on stage last week at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference spinning YouTube is still working on video copyright protection tools, so no need for multibillion dollar Viacom infringement claims, Hurley was also unleashing a we're copyright owners friends combo pitch in conjunction with...

Tags: YouTube, Video, Music, Google, Copyright

Blog posts 2007-06-03

YouTube: What MySpace can teach Google about copyright

Will Google CEO Schmidt's "wait for the tools" banter on media giant Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement legal claim at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week be his famous last words?SEE: Google CEO tows Google line at D5Think Schmidts' recent "Big Brother" musings reflect a Google disregard...

Tags: YouTube, Video, MySpace, Google, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Forget Google, YouTube must pay!

In Why Google is more dangerous than Microsoft earlier today, I signaled to John Battelle that he ought not hold his breath for Google to step up to the money plate in support of "journalism," despite the fact that Google makes oodles of dollars off of gratis news.Move over news...

Tags: Google, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Does YouTube really help children in Africa?

YouTube's King Hurley is determined to truly merit the world worship he receives. From Davos World Economic Forum to the U.S. Congress, Chad is universally celebrated as a world hero and he is regularly solicited as a beacon shining for the betterment of the world's fuure.In U.S. Government to YouTube: WOW! But ‘Take that stuff down' I...

Tags: Google, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-30

CBS to Google: We want YOUR audience!

CBS is on a tear, a who needs mainstream media tear that is.After all, what's $280 million, if it brings "15 million active users to an audience hungry media company"?Beauty is in the eye of the future beholder: "Last.fm is one of the most well-established, fastest-growing online community networks out there," according...

Tags: Google, Music, MySpace, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Can YouTube out maneuver Pentagon?

Why is Google so cocky about the mounting multi-billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuits its YouTube faces? Because YouTube has the fans!Google CEO Eric Schmidt takes great pleasure in letting video content owners know that they need YouTube more than YouTube needs them. YouTube King Hurley also takes every opportunity to...

Tags: Google, Video, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Why YouTube is a losing video proposition

The Google YouTube massive copyright infringement saga continunes, big time. BUT, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has NOT "jumped on any "let's sue YouTube  bandwagon," as is cavalerily proclaimed: "YouTube just can't seem to keep those lawsuits off its back."Why are the copyright infringement lawsuits "backing up" against YouTube? Because Google's YouTube operations are...

Tags: YouTube, Video, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-25

YouTube, MySpace, Facebook: Is the honeymoon over?

Is Facebook really the next Google, royalty in waiting?Chad Hurley declared himself and his partner Steve Chen Internet "Kings" upon the YouTube buyout by Google for a royal ransom of $1.65 billion in GOOG.The world has since concurred, literally at least on the Chad front.From the World Economic Forum in...

Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook

Blog posts 2007-05-21

YouTube copyright lawsuits mount: Who needs Google?

The Google YouTube lawsuits for massive copyright infringement are coming at a fast and furious pace.The latest, as reported by Bloomberg News:"Google Inc.s YouTube unit was sued by David Grisman, a mandolin player who once performed with the Grateful Dead, over what he says are unauthorized postings of his music,...

Tags: Google, Video, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-15

YouTube to video artists: Wolf in sheep's clothing?

Is all good in King Chad's YouTube Kingdom now that he agreed to share the video wealth, in his own small, very selective way?NO, both newly ordained video elite and newly dissed "non-populars," are lamenting a YouTube calculated business move that moves YouTube away from its original community spirit.The chosen video few are wondering if they are...

Tags: Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising, Google, Uncategorized, Video, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-15

MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!

News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...

Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Google YouTube: Viral video success formula?

What makes for a good viral video? How can You Tube clip culture success be had?Did you ever wish you could find out directly from YouTube?Rich LeFurgy, General Partner, Archer Advisors, moderating the “Content, Consumers, Community: The Balance of Control” panel today at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Digital Video Forum...

Tags: YouTube, Video, User Generated Politics, Google Ads, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-07

Google's YouTube: Is NBC copyright lawsuit near?

Will NBC be the next major media company to sue Google’s YouTube for “massive copyright infringement”? YouTube: What is NBC’s end game? I asked in January, citing Rick Cotton, NBC Universal general counsel, on the NBC-YouTube “difficult balancing act.”YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed? is the latest...

Tags: YouTube, Legal, Google, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2007-05-06

YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?

"HAS YOUR COPYRIGHT BEEN INFRINGED BY YOUTUBE?"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 District Court...

Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2007-05-05

How YouTube lost its video soul, big time

Can YouTube make revenue sharing work? I asked in January, upon the worldwide transmission of King Hurleys’ snack-sized (87 seconds) utterance straight from an elevator bank in Davos, Switzerland.The Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the supposedly “little” video people that is, caused many...

Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users

Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...

Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Why Google threatens Internet, not Viacom

Aaron Cohen, Bolt CEO, told me in February that the DMCA puts an “undue burden on copyright holders to enforce their copyrights.”He also told me that “companies that use safe harbor to host a significant amount of copyright material risk litigation.”(Universal Music vs. MySpace, Grouper, Bolt, YouTube?)Right, on both counts....

Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Video, Content

Blog posts 2007-05-01

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

Web 2.0 Social Media: Voyeurs rule, not amateurs!

In my “Social Freeloaders” User Generated Content UGC series last year. I created a Web 2.0: Top five social risks list to evaluate the sustainability, or not, of UGC based models. In asking Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it? last June, I used...

Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Google, Amateur Content

Blog posts 2007-04-28

CBS Radio to Google, YouTube: No thanks, we built TargetSpot!

What is TargetSpot? A revolutionary new advertising platform that enables businesses of all sizes and budgets to advertise their products and services to the ever-growing Internet radio listening audience. Streaming video capabilities soon as well. With TargetSpot, you can create ads using a suite of easy-to-use production tools...

Tags: Advertising, Google, Google Ads, Local, Marketing, Media, Radio, VC, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-04-26