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21st Century Celebrities

21st Century Celebrities

Some people think that globalization is a process which tends to standardize cultures, and then to destroy our world’s diversity. Given that the Internet’s development is in line with this process, they also consider that the Internet is the (...)

18 Nov. 2009 | | Josse

Mark Cuban still won’t admit he was wrong

In what has to be one of the most often-quoted comments about an Internet company, billionaire basketball-team owner Mark Cuban said in 2006 that “only a moron would buy YouTube.” Within a matter of months, of course, Google paid $1.65-billion (...)

22 jui. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Arts & Entertainment

Full transcript of Celine Dion’s "Take a Kayak" on CNN with Larry King

One of the greatest moments in television history, indeed the greatest moment in the history of YouTube, is Celine Dion’s "Take a Kayak." YouTube, in some sort of Canadian-whackjob-protection strategy, keeps taking down the "Take a (...)

28 mai. 2009 | 3 comments | W.C. Varones

Don’t you judge anyone too quickly!

Susan Boyle

AGAINST ALL ODDS Against all odds because Susan Boyle was starved of oxygen at birth, which left her with learning difficulties. Three in 1,000 babies in the United Kingdom still either die or become severely brain-damaged at birth, by the lack of oxygen (...)

20 Apr. 2009 | | J.N. PAQUET

Can YouTube even handle movies ?

Greg Sandoval at CNET had a story today saying that he heard from a couple of sources close to YouTube that the company will soon be launching full-length movies. This led to a raft of posts echoing the story, most of which mentioned that this seemed like (...)

7 nov. 2008 | | Mathew Ingram

Keep an eye on YouTube’s citizen journalism channel

So YouTube has announced the hiring of a news manager and the launch of a citizen journalism channel. Don’t be fooled by the raw nature of this, folks, because you may be looking at not only future hires in your community but also future styles in (...)

23 mai. 2008 | | Terry Heaton

New Turkish YouTube ban

Turkey has again blocked YouTube in response to a video clip deemed to have insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founding father. A year ago to the month, Turkey barred YouTube saying some of the posts were insulting to Ataturk. At the (...)

17 mar. 2008 | | Jon Newton

YouTube is Borked : Pakistani Censors Suspected

YouTube is Borked : Pakistani Censors Suspected

It looks like an attempt to censor rightwing arsewit Geert Wilders’s anti-Islam home movie has broken YouTube. Pakistani authorities issued a circular to ISPs in Pakistan demanding that they block access to YouTube ; but this doesn’t explain (...)

25 fév. 2008 | | Alex Harrowell

Britney’s news are that important?

Britney’s news are that important?

Even though we all know that all the "stars" calls up our and media attention, are Britney’s news that important?, shouldn’t we pay more attention to other subjetcts rather than spending all that energy which could be much more (...)

16 Jan. 2008 | | micmac08USA

Modern Copyright Law Madness Explained

There is a great video on YouTube explaining the downside of modern copyright law using the story of a very famous drum loop called the Amen Break. The video is called Amen Brother. It is 18 minutes long so be warned, but if you want to skip to the (...)

19 sep. 2007 | 1 comment | Geek News Central

YouTube is the farm team for stardom

First it was “Brookers” - YouTube sensation Brooke Brodack, 20, who did skits in front of her web-cam and was signed to a TV development deal by Carson Daly Productions last year - and then came David Lehre, who is also developing comedy (...)

7 jui. 2007 | | Mathew Ingram

YouTube, Joost getting cozy with advertisers

First, we got the news that Joost - the Internet TV venture started by the Skype boys, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom - has signed three-month advertising deals with 31 major brand advertisers, including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Nike and GM. (...)

27 avr. 2007 | | Mathew Ingram

YouTube in death threat probe

YouTube in death threat probe

A search warrant against YouTube and Hotmail has been executed by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as part of an investigation against a drug trafficker threatening to kill his brother via YouTube’s video email, says Google (...)

21 mar. 2007 | | Jon Newton

Google-YouTube : Buyers ? Regret ?

Do you think the M&A folks at Google are maybe having second thoughts about the decision to spend $1.6-billion to buy YouTube, its 21-million unique visitors a month and, unfortunately, its mountain of legal woes ? Viacom is the latest content owner (...)

14 mar. 2007 | 1 comment | Mark Evans

1 Billion Dollars who are they kidding

I have been down in the trenches working business stuff today, and when I came up to breath I saw the headline that Viacom is suing YouTube for a Billion Plus for copyright infringement. My initial reaction was who are they kidding. The second reaction (...)

14 mar. 2007 | | Geek News Central

The Skype boys take on GooTube

According to a story in the Wall Street Journal this morning (reg. required), entertainment colossus Viacom has signed a distribution deal with Joost, the peer-to-peer streaming television service that Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom started up with the (...)

20 fév. 2007 | | Mathew Ingram

TV 2.0 ? Slouching towards Bethlehem

Two announcements that indicate the process of evolution in the TV 2.0 business is really picking up a head of steam : Brightcove — which until recently was like the wizard behind the curtains, powering online TV ventures such as the recently (...)

31 oct. 2006 | | Mathew Ingram

YouTube under government control ?

YouTube under government control ?

With GooTube already committed to its own form of consumer control, it’s not much of a leap for governments to want want to avail themselves of the possibilities. Now, UK ministers are, "backing, in principle, plans to impose controls on the (...)

26 oct. 2006 | | Jon Newton

YouTube videos deleted

Having been recently acquired by Google, YouTube has already fallen prey to major entertainment cartel censorship. "A total of 29,549 videos were deleted from video streaming site YouTube following a request from copyright-related rights organizations, (...)

20 oct. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Does YouTube Deal Foreshadow Licensed P2P ?

My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version , BBC version ) examines the parallels between YouTube and Napster, asking whether the YouTube - Google deal might foreshadow licensed peer-to-peer systems. While some media companies, (...)

17 oct. 2006 | | Michael Geist

Next Stop Ikea Way

Sponsored Tube Map ? The Tube’s lawyers got all in a kerfuffle about the ’Sponsored Tube Map’ with companies replacing station names, but it looks like the flatpack Kings IKEA have managed to get onto a TfL map. The webmaster of Croydon (...)

10 oct. 2006 | | Annie Mole

Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

Google shocked the online world this weekend with its acquisition of leading video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock. YouTube will maintain its brand and site, and move into its new San Bruno offices this week as planned. Hitwise estimates (...)

10 oct. 2006 | | Niall Kennedy

The Copyright-ization of YouTube

For anyone dreaming of a YouTube IPO (or M&A), hope comes in the form of a licensing deal with Warner Brother Music that will see some kind of revenue sharing. According to AP, Warner will license thousands of music videos to YouTube. Warner will also (...)

19 sep. 2006 | 1 comment | Mark Evans

Who’s right ? Mark Cuban or Warner ?

In case you needed any further confirmation that the state of online media is in turmoil, there’s a great example today with the news that Warner Music is working with YouTube to license its music to the massively popular video-sharing site. (...)

18 sep. 2006 | | Mathew Ingram

MySpace : Arrogant or Confident ?

MySpace : Arrogant or Confident ?

News Corp. must be feeling pretty chuffed about its prescient acquisition of MySpace last year. How else to judge a here’s-the-facts-ma’am statement from News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin, who said at an industry conference (...)

14 sep. 2006 | | Mark Evans

TV amateurs threaten pros

In much the same way the traditional print press is desperately trying to work out how to exploit blogging, "the TV industry is frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts, Internet movies and home videos into one package," says Reuters. (...)

11 sep. 2006 | | Jon Newton

Handing your rights to YouTube

Before you upload your video masterpiece to YouTube, better read the company’s new Terms & Conditions. That’s because when you check it out, you’ll find, “…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant (...)

21 jui. 2006 | | Jon Newton

YouTube sued over Denny flic

New entertainment cartel favourite YouTube is being sued for, ?allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage, ? including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots. Los Angeles News Service and owner operator Robert Tur say one (...)

18 jui. 2006 | | Jon Newton

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