On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:50:18 +0000, Doug Mentohl
<doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>George Barca wrote:
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>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:05:29 +0000, Doug Mentohl
>> <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> Google plans to give big media companies a cut of advertising revenues when their videos appear on YouTube, regardless of who posts them to the site ..
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>> How could they possibly police that? Let's say that I post a snippet from the Star Trek episode with the tribbles and you post a snippet from a different part of the same episode ..
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>They're not paying the uploaders, they are paying the copyright owners
>regardless of who posts them to the site .... :)
Correct, but the copyright owners could hire people to shill for
them and pay them a portion of the proceeds.
Seems like a huge undertaking for Google to me.
George Barca
georgebarca1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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