I will be giving a talk to law students at my school on Wednesday. The title of my talk is noted above. We will be discussing this video of Stephen Colbert about the YouTube “ripoff.” (Warning: the video contains footage of two acts of stupidity and some graphic violence involving a guy hitting a person on the head with a shovel.)
If you have any opinions on this video or the following questions, I’d love to hear them:
1. Why is YouTube so popular among users? What’s the point of posting silly videos online?
2. How should major copyright holders, like the movie and music industries, deal with people posting clips of their content without authorization on YouTube?
3. Is YouTube really worth $1.65 billion?
UPDATE: In the “rip-off” clip, Stephen Colbert joked about having Colbert Report clips up on YouTube, even though Viacom, his parent company, asked some to be removed. Now, ironically, Viacom or the Colbert Report asked that the same video clip in which Colbert makes fun of Viacom and others over the use of his clips to be removed from YouTube. ”Rip-off” is now available on Comedy Central’s site here.
November 16, 2006 at 6:54 am |
Interested as to how your talk went…here’s another way I found to communicate my own personal video messages to friends, family, etc….www.freegabmail.com…..WOW!! I didn’t have to tell them anything about myself, didn’t have to download any software…I just recorded a video, sent it to a friend, and before you know it, I had messaged a bunch of friends and family–and those with cams and microphones had replied…with Videos of their own!!! The GabJam feature is one to explore too, with the threaded video discussion, there are SO Many Possibilities!!
Well, check it out, and blog about it so I know what you think!
Peace,
Liz