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Re: YouTube Concedes To Japanese Demands

Kakar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:15:53 -0000

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penpals — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:05:11 -0000

The end of Youtube?

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Jamie — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:55:33 -0000

Wow now it is 100X bigger!

Re: YouTube Concedes To Japanese Demands

martin scorsese — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:22:03 -0000

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Many of these excellent small blog sites about Japan like Japanprobe, Japansugoi, Tokyo Mango and thousands of hosted blog sites on Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad feature Japanese content from youtube embedded videos. The source of all the videos is youtube and they gotta find a way to balance what internet users want, what the copyright owners want, and how they split any revenues.

Re: YouTube Concedes To Japanese Demands

reed — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:37:23 -0000

Japanese entertainment as an industry has a lot more effort going in with a lot less financially coming out, compared to North America. If clips of movies, dramas or daily broadcasts are being copied off and mass-distributed in Japan, and the Japanese community starts to buzz about it, that's all there is. It's not like a copy of a copy of something that picks up here and there, gets blogged a thousand times, gets Dugg, gets put on CNN and morning talk shows, and is finally "big" enough to merit action a month later. The ripple moves much quicker and reaches a broader demographic in fewer steps, and the impact is greater.

Except for a select few Avex Trax artists like old (ancient!) Ayumi, entertainers are hardworking day-to-day content creators, and the shows they work on pick up and dump them for competitive wages. Superstars in Japan are nowhere near superstars in Hollywood, to say nothing of the behind-the-scenes workers. So yeah, they have a lot to worry about when people can skip their 15-minute twice-a-week broadcast and grab it up on Youtube.

Of course we are talking about Japan, which is a flagrant copyright-abuse nation that enjoys a very, very healthy CD rental industry that is aware of and tailored to accomodate the music-theft movement. Japan also is a movie rental culture first and a film appreciation culture second. Go to any conbini or manga shop and you will find magazines telling you explicitly how to rip DVDs and download and keep dailymotion, youtube and google videos.

I do think JASRAC and others will lose this fight, the further they take it. Youtube may be honouring negotiations right now, but ultimately its Japanese user base is all copyright-infringers, not bedroom vloggers, and it wouldn't suffer much from just saying "no Japanese IPs, sorry!" or letting the Japan branch create its own much more restrictive sign-up and conten management system.

Re: YouTube Concedes To Japanese Demands

Jack Smith — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:20:51 -0000

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nick — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:42:12 -0000

There are hundreds or even thousands of Japanese videos all over the internet, in small or personal sites. Iâ€™m not sure why theyâ€™re trying to single-out Youtube.

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Yoko — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:33:20 -0000

There are hundreds or even thousands of Japanese videos all over the internet, in small or personal sites. I'm not sure why they're trying to single-out Youtube.

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D. Douwright — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:33:06 -0000

Hey-- I hope you guys dont care if I borrow everything YOU own.
Iâ€™m sure you guys are benefiting from YouTube. !

Boy you sure are cavalier about other people's ownership rights!

I can see you are experts in borrowing- amatuers in ethics.
YouTube should be striking deals with content OWNERS- too bad losers are posting clips thay have borrowed, er I mean STOLEN!

Seriously- you gotta get some perspective here! We are talking about stealing!

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Pete Cashmore — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:59:44 -0000

Well, what they should be doing is to strike revenue sharing deals with YouTube, rather than pulling clips.

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Ronald Lewis — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:58:20 -0000

These guys are wasting valuable time about right now. If I were the owner of a large library of copyrighted works and "clips" were available online of the content, I seriously wouldn't care. The content is engaging the audience and furthering the brand and/or show. I'm sure these guys are benefiting from YouTube.