RSSYouTube Adds 10-Minute Video Limit
By Ed Oswald | Published March 30, 2006, 10:48 AM
Popular viral video site YouTube.com earlier this week made some moves to ensure that copyrighted material was not making it on to its site. Effective immediately, the length of videos would be limited to ten minutes or less. In an analysis by the company, it said a majority of those longer videos were copyrighted.
"We're constantly trying to balance the rights of copyright owners with the rights of our users," the company said in a statement.
YouTube has drawn the ire of the broadcast networks, most recently NBC. Representatives of the network found copies of "Lazy Sunday," a rap parody by Saturday Night Live comedians Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg, on YouTube's pages and demanded they be removed.
Sifting through the content submitted by users is no easy task. Each day, tens of thousands of new videos are submitted to the site. Thus, the service also relies on self-policing by its users, who view some 15 million videos per day and are asked to report those with questionable content.
In a posting to the company's Web log, YouTube said it was aware that for some users, the ten-minute restriction would be an issue. The company is working on a solution, but for the time being it asked those who had legal-long form content to contact the service directly.
"We want to know how you've been impacted by this change and any thoughts or ideas you may have," YouTube said.
I think what youtube should have is to ban some take down all the copyrighted material because I remembered that I read the article about youtube.com from www.wrestlezone.com that the wwe told them to removed all copyrighted stuff. I will say this that they need to join up with the networks like MTV and others.
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Youtube.com should team up with the networks and offer these video's on special network pages that the network can add clips such as the "portman gangster rap" and "Lazy Sunday" as promotion for their shows. God knows the amount of money or resources they spend now is alot, and either of these videos are much better promotions for thier shows than some of the advertising we've seen in the past. Maybe even give back some of the earning that the advertising makes for youtube.com off these particular pages. It would be a win win for both sides. Youtube.com would gain back some of the lost revenue of not having these videos might have caused, and NBC for excample, would not look like asses, gain a little revenue, and gain the exposure for the show.
Just a thought.
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"Lazy Sunday," had brough actual viewers back to the network, from the usual SNL crap.
But yeah there was quite a bit of copyright stuff on there. I watched a few episodes of 1990's series.
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