aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
What’s popular: user-generated or corporate copyrighted?
I believe it’s true:
ON YouTube, copyrighted video clips of movies and TV shows are far less popular compared with noncopyrighted material than previously thought, according to a new study.
On their face, the results could have serious implications for YouTubeÂ’s owner, Google, and the media companies, most notably Viacom, with which it has been negotiating. But not everyone agrees.
Vidmeter, which tracks the online video business, determined that the clips that were removed for copyright violations Â- most of them copyrighted by big media companies Â- comprise just 9 percent of all videos on the site. Even more surprising, the videos that have been removed make up just 6 percent of the total views (vidmeter.com).
