http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/wr_nm/youtube_lawsuit_dc;_ylt=AqCpTJ.mq40jP.TJWZKnkQX6VbIF
Another case of copyrighted material surfacing on youtube. Personally, I see little wrong with soccer clips being shown on Youtube. Homemade highlight videos of players, 10 top goals, or bloopers are all material that promotes the league itself. I do not see how a soccer league has anything to lose by having clips on youtube. A whole match would be different, but clips only drive the interest in the league further up.
"the Premier League has been forced to send time-consuming and ineffectual notices of infringement to YouTube."
A solution, much like the one that was brought up in class would be to treat Youtube the way that Myspace is treated. That is, having a quick and easy way to report copyrighted material. Although as the poitn was brought up in class, most people won't report something they are actively looking for (a copyrighted simpsons episode, for example) but would report Pornography on Myspace. Google owns Youtube, but Google Video and Youtube are treated differently. To put a video on Google Video, the video must be watched and approved to appear on the site. Implimenting a system such as this would help stop the influx of copyrighted videos from appearing on Youtube.
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