Via The Chutry Experiment. Is it confusing?

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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley delivered a speech at MIPCOM aimed at alleviating distributors’ fears over online distribution. It’s mostly not very interesting, however, the rights management portion caught my attention:
Hundreds of millions of people around the world were able to engage and experience the Olympics online, many of whom never had never had the opportunity [...]

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I’m a bit late in posting about a new, very important resource. I wanted to review the document before posting. Based on the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, The Center for Social Media at American University has continued to help content creators identify and express what fair use means in creating [...]

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Via TechCrunch, The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos, is a very interesting look into the techniques some folks are using to create hurricanes around online videos. You might read this and think it is kind of smarmy and way more underhanded than you want to be, but it strikes a cord as I think [...]

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Via Film Threat, Michael Dean has made his full documentary available on YouTube. The first part is aesthetically uninspiring, but looks poised for some interesting profiles despite the rough edges.

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Via WIRED, “Disney, CBS, Microsoft, Fox, NBC, Viacom, Dailymotion, MySpace and Veoh Networks announced so-called User Generated Content Principles that appear aimed at stifling fair use. The announcement calls for the ‘implementation of state of the art filtering technology with the goal to eliminate infringing content on (user-generated content services), including blocking infringing uploads before [...]

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I’ve heard about and seen first-hand a few projects over the years that employ a concensus approach, whether it be soliciting advice from the film’s subjects, a group of filmmakers, or in this case, the public. Via Filmmaker magazine’s blog, “Two filmmakers, Eric Byler and Annabel Park, are making a film about the politics of [...]

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I think Revver is a great model for people who want to earn some cash off videos they upload to the web. YouTube has the advantage of being first in the online video game, and high traffic can follow, but the Revver model is about sharing videos and earning from it through advertising. Revver has [...]

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Thanks for Mark Schoneveld for the tip!

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Whether you like the term user-generated content or not, the fact that there are millions of folks creating short videos that reflect their own tastes, personalities and creativity is a fact. Whatever the label. The Center for Social Media and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property have announced that in follow-up to the [...]

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