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YouTube Adds 10-Minute Video Limit

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

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.

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By cog_michael

edited Oct 20, 2007 - 11:59 PM

Hi
I been posting on youtube for nearly a year now. and the new 10 minute limet is a poor policy. 1.because it now limets my broadcasting power. 2. I spent 196 hours working on new compression program to get 2 hrs of video under 100 megs youtube file limet. 3. It punish the users who do not post copywrited material. It like mass punishment.
4. It all about money. Corporations are gready.
5. Did I mention money. I quit a big corporation because of money and politics with in the company. as you know it resulted in poor OS being release. Because it was there way and not the consumer way. Sorry I never release or did something not unless it was tested or really think how the end user was going to use it.
Next there blaming the end user and others. Many of us user has reported copywrite problems. Most went ignore. And some was overlook. Because there no real definance what is concider orginal work. Public laws very from state to state country to country on what is consider orginal work, Remix or plain out copywrite stealing.
Next and this is where it come from our public schools. I can even testified to this and then later on we tend to over look how it begins.
Like class or school projects. remember cutting articals and pictures from books and magizines. To use in a essey or School assignment.AH HA copywriten???THink about it. According to some laws. Or now days we teach kids to create a movie or video out of other copywritten movies IN SCHOOL. I personal seen this in many PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSES. Even a few those so call questionable videos on youtube where from class room assignments.
So kind of mix signal we sending to our kids.
Next How copywrited is copywriten.
I mean go into any home any goverment office with a VCR, A TIVO, a Computer or a DVD player and I bet you I can find a piece of copywritten material on a media source some place with in the area. Yet the original contect can not be found??????????
What next coperation Medea police going house to house?
Who the blame when yet the people who are sueing or corporations who are sueing release ways to copy there own stuff or they broadcast it free on Tv and radio and can be capture there. Getting the picture.
Next it another way for a corporation to take over something free and charging money for it. Look at napster. It was free till somebody sue and then it turn into a paying site. Did the creater go to jail??? No turn it into a pay site, Pay the fine , Pay the corporation off from profets it make now days. Yet it was free website at one time.. Another mix signal I would say.
Ya all I can see now it another way to put down man kind and slow progress down. Some greedy person or corporation wanting do a take over on youtube and make it a pay site. I mean see anybody complaining on there sister website GODTUBE? There more copywriten material uploaded there then on youtube and this is by CHRISTIANS.
I could be a gready Person too. And start sueing over a lot things on the internet that I know and found as my work. But I do not. Money not important to me. Beside why tie up the courts over little stuff and I end up just pushing the problem underground. Or to the black market.
Problem need start using common sence. Before suing who really at fault? Me, you or how we really look at it.
Me I'm only on this earth for short time. If I can give away something for nothing or little cost and premote growth of man kind. Then I pretty much leave it alone. Not go sue over what some child or teen created. Who know he was taught it was ok by our public system. Who knows he may be the next Goerge Lucus or Bill Gates. Most started out imatating or using other people work when we was younger and nobody complain back then. Now days it whole new ball game.
This been ongoing debate law suit after law suit. And it all boils down to Money and control. Who has the most money has the control.
For I'm just as guilty as anyone else on the internet. And I don't think we have enough jails for everyone who has internet connection.
Laterz
C.O.G. Michael

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By mitun2006

edited Apr 2, 2006 - 12:43 AM

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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By Dmdfreak

edited Mar 30, 2006 - 3:39 PM

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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By mjm01010101

posted Mar 30, 2006 - 11:59 AM

"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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