Film critic Kevin Lee found his YouTube account closed and his video essays removed after a third DMCA notice. Content owners have jointly professed great respect for fair use, but Lee’s story shows just how many problems remain.
The House of Representatives have launched their own official channel on YouTube called HouseHub. Nancy Pelosi has uploaded the first video to the channel, giving a behind the scenes view of the Speaker’s Office on the Capitol Cat Cam. They’re so cute!
Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I’m afraid that they won’t be able to do that much longer, since YouTube has started muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music
The Corpus Christi Ice Rays threw down with the fearsomely named Bossier-Shreveport Mud Bugs in late December, and the YouTube has just now made the Internet. It’s got everything: a brutal check for an opening salvo, a goalie fight, a body slam, players coming off the bench to fight, and an announcer with infectious enthusiasm.
eldavojohn writes “Following an election in which online videos played an important role, the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate have opened YouTube channels (or ‘hubs’) advertised to be a ‘backstage pass to your government.’ Ideally this will bring transparency to citizens and inform them of their senators’ & representatives’ positions and ideas.”
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For several hours today, YouTube’s most-viewed list showed that the day’s two most watched videos were L’Oreal commercials. They remained in the most valuable and visible positions on the site despite having hundreds of thousands of fewer views than the actual most-viewed video.
Wherein I have the most popular video on youtube and I get ranked 6th in the most viewed because I’m not a partner (and yes, they had just done an update on the chart, so its not like it just hasn’t adjusted yet, I’ve been #1 for nearly 24 hours now and between 6-12th)
What’s one way to foster goodwill among the incoming Presidential administration led by Barack Obama? Throw it a party, of course!
