August 13th, 2007
As it is making moves into the music industry, Google decided to give up on its video sales efforts. Apparently, Google had found it to be easier and more profitable to simply place ads on free content than to actually charge people for it. A recent article from the NYTIMES writes:
Google’s decision to close the […]
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July 30th, 2007
Google plans on introducing a system which will automatically filter out copy written materials from being posted on YouTube.
According to the plan, Google intends on maintaining a library of digital video fingerprints that would be used by a computer system to screen clips being uploaded to YouTube. This is according to Philip Beck, one of […]
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May 7th, 2007
As they plan on start sharing profits with users who post stolen content on their site, YouTube is facing a rather large suit again. This time it is the FA Premiere League (the English Football Association) who is pursuing a suit for the theft of stolen content.
The league claims that Google knew about theft but […]
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May 7th, 2007
YouTube announced last week that they will start sharing profits with premium publishers. In a post on their blog titled “YouTube Elevates Most Popular Users to Partners” Google writes:
. . . we’re adding several of the most popular and prolific original content creators from the YouTube community to our partnership program. Now some of […]
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February 22nd, 2007
Google’s YouTube had lost two major video deals this week with media giants Viacom and CBS. Both deals were supposed to allow YouTube users to watch clips from shows such as CBS’s “The Late Show with David Letterman,” and Viacom’s MTV Networks, BET Networks, and Paramount Pictures.
Viacom went with Google’s competitor Joost, while CBS is […]
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