Tag: youtube

  • Sometimes it pays to listen

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    Tom Raftery
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    I wrote, shortly after Google bought YouTube, that this purchase was a potential windfall for YouTube copyright claimants however recent happenings are proving me wrong (imagine that!). Prof Tim Wu (Professor of Law at Columbia) wrote recently in an article in Slate that YouTube (or GooTube as people are now taking to calling it): is…

  • Google's windfall for copyright claimants

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    Tom Raftery
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    In case you haven’t heard (where have you been?) Google announced that the rumours were true after all and that they have agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65bn. Yep. You read that correctly, $1.65bn. Unsurprisingly, this is the top story on TechMeme. It looks like Google believes video on the web has a real future…

  • Video sharing sites ToS reviewed

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    Tom Raftery
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    Simon of Tuppenceworth has a great post where he reviews the terms and conditions of video sharing sites (YouTube, Blip.tv and Google Video). Simon works in McGarr Solicitors a well known law firm in dublin. I haven’t tried Google Video yet but I have tried both Blip.tv and YouTube and I much prefer Blip.tv. Google…

  • Online video

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been playing a bit doing some research on YouTube. I realise YouTube has been around a while and I have watched many videos on it but I hadn’t looked into uploading video to YouTube until now. YouTube is a site which allows you to upload video clips (in the same way that Flickr…