The Uninvited

	Duration: 03:24 minutes Upload Time: 07-05-08 21:24:58 User: marquisdejolie :::: Favorites
Description: A reading of the Youtube blog concerning revenue sharing and partners.
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marquisdejolie ::: Favorites I feel like going Indian on this balogna. Revver doesn't treat me like a third class citizen. Blip, either. Veoh even advertises my vids for me. 07-05-09 01:55:50 _____________________________________________________
burrheadjr ::: Favorites Good points, and style getting it across 07-05-09 14:05:35 _____________________________________________________
ActionTeacher ::: Favorites Love the way you made this video. 07-05-13 18:52:39 _____________________________________________________
marquisdejolie ::: Favorites Thanks 07-05-13 20:14:12 _____________________________________________________
jennify ::: Favorites Seriously clever video. Perhaps if I made a cute video with a kitten falling alseep in a basket or a baby farting a cloud of powder I could make some real money at this... 07-05-14 21:42:32 _____________________________________________________
NoPlaceToRest ::: Favorites (1/5) I like your style, but I disagree with your opinion insofar as I think YT is right in advancing this step by step. There are difficulties in extending this sort of program to a large group of private individuals. For one thing, signing people up for the program <i>requires work and resources</i>: you have to make a contract with everyone, check their personal data, keep track of the revenue, wire them the money -- these are all things that YT have to pay for, 07-05-18 08:59:03 _____________________________________________________
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NoPlaceToRest ::: Favorites (2/5) and I guess they don't want to wait forever before their initial investment in a user pays off. Of course, they can easily solve this by asking, say, a fifty dollar sign-up fee for the program -- if the current partners get 0.5 cents per video view (that's only hearsay, I would have thought they'd get less), everybody could do the math for themselves. But once they do ask a fee, the new partners have a right to demand that everything is going smoothly, 07-05-18 08:59:20 _____________________________________________________
NoPlaceToRest ::: Favorites (3/5) so I think they're only smart to start testing the whole thing with a select few people, with whom they probably have had contact before. The far bigger problem, however, is YT's culture of <i>copyright violation</i>. I'm not even talking about the nutcases that upload music videos and Family Guy clips: even the stuff that is perhaps Fair Use today -- like playing a commercial song in the background while you're recording your vlog -- may be illegal 07-05-18 08:59:35 _____________________________________________________
NoPlaceToRest ::: Favorites (4/5) once you're producing videos commercially. The average vlogger might not even be aware of this problem, but it could land both YT and its users in severe trouble. If you have tens of thousands of partners with a not-so-firm notion of copyright, you'd probably have to monitor tens of thousands of partners -- and there's no advertising that could pay for that. I guess 07-05-18 09:00:00 _____________________________________________________
NoPlaceToRest ::: Favorites (5/5) this is why Chad and Steve in the recent AP interview present copyright violations as the chief problem to overcome before they can make «more opportunities to reward the people that are really creating great content for our system.» So, while I understand your disappointment I still see revenue sharing coming on a broad basis, and I think they'd better do it slowly and sanely than in a mad rush. They could communicate better, though, that's true. 07-05-18 09:01:08 _____________________________________________________