YouTube Considering Conventional TV Shows & Channel

Posted Jan 11th 2007 2:30PM by Ajit Anthony
Filed under: Trends, Business, The Little Guy, Television, Web, Online

YouTube is considering creating a television show and/or a TV channel. The content will consist of user-generated clips that are handpicked from the millions of clips it currently hosts. This is a nice idea, it will quickly replace the TV viral shows and compete against programs like "America's Funniest Home Videos." But you have to wonder if the creators will be compensated in any way. And if the answer is no, why not? It is one thing to put it on the web, it is another to put it on TV. Though I remember reading that Youtube license did indicate that Youtube could in a sense play the videos on any platform. Meaning they covered their bases.

(via Gizmodo)

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1. Better yet - how in the world will they verify these things are real. Most of them are fake.

Posted at 6:14PM on Jan 11th 2007 by Toner Refill Kits

2. Youtube was infamous for their license agreement revision. It stated that youtube had full rights to redistribute your works without your permission. It's basically covered in their license agreement how the content creators will be compensated. Since this second revision that I'm talking about, after Google bought youtube, has there been any changes to the license agreement?

Posted at 10:54PM on Jan 11th 2007 by DaveC

3. I found the section I was referring to. It seems they haven't changed at all.

"For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels."

So does this mean no compensation? Maybe not. Maybe youtube will make it like a contest. If your video is shown, you get a certain dollar amount in return. This could be used as encouragement to keep on producing great videos people will watch.

Posted at 10:59PM on Jan 11th 2007 by DaveC

4. Good work. DaveC.

I doubt they will pay anyone though.

Posted at 11:34PM on Jan 11th 2007 by Ajit

5. thought the clips remain the copyright of the uploader, pay us and we will allow it! they aint free u know

Posted at 3:02PM on Jan 12th 2007 by hi

6. Who gets paid though? What if the person who posted the video never got permission from the person in the video? If Youtube starts paying users, I see a lot of lawsuits forming. It would probably be best to not pay the people for using their videos and save everyone the legal troubles.

Posted at 8:18PM on Jan 14th 2007 by Joshua E-B

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