I’m watching the CNN-YouTube debate between the Democratic candidates for president, live on CNN now. (It’s also being streamed live on CNN.com.) I really do like the format, where more than 3,000 people from around the world — I was one of them — posed questions to the candidates. YouTubers will have a go at […]
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Mark Cuban: YouTube is doomed
Spectrum Online: Mark Cuban: YouTube is doomed. Excerpt: Cuban: … So much of YouTube’s success and model is based on the safe harbor—which seems really slippery. … If you [consider] the safe harbor, I don’t think YouTube is a service provider. Two, it says that if you are aware of infringement, you have got […]
Do video producers need a model release form?
Do video producers and video bloggers need to obtain a right-of-publicity/model release form from the subjects of their videos if they plan on using the video commercially (including making money from ads)? I posed the question to San Francisco attorney Colette Vogele at the recent Web Video Summit in San Jose, and then caught up […]
At the Web Video Summit
Today and Thursday I’ll be in San Jose, Calif., at the first Web Video Summit put on by Jupitermedia. I helped put on one of the tracks, and I’ll be moderating two panels: Making News News, with Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad, Steve Grove of YouTube, Brian Gruber of fora.tv and Josh Wolf of […]
Kent Bye on political videos
At Pixelodeon I interviewed Kent Bye about the new PoliticalVideo.org project as well as his Echo Chamber project and the role of the citizenry in providing video commentary on the 2008 election. PoiticalVideo took 500 hours from the WhiteHouse.gov site and is making the public domain footage of President George W. Bush available for download, […]