YouTube Removing Variety of Copyrighted Videos

Posted on October 30, 2006

The fall out from Google's recent acquisition of YouTube seems to be that content owners are requesting their copyrighted content to be removed. We have seen videos owned by Japanese media outlets removed. Thousands of sports clips have been removed. Just recently Comedy Central videos, including popular Daily Show and South Park clips, are slowly being removed. This may just be the beginning of the amount of content that could be removed. YouTube members who have posted some of the copyrighted content are also being warned. Idealog has a copyof the email members are being sent. The email warns that repeat incidents of copyright infringement "will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account."

Google and YouTube need to come up with a reason for content owners to want to keep their videos available on YouTube. Meanwhile, a company named Brightcove is already said to be working on video marketplace where video developers can insert ads into their video clips and syndicate them on other websites. Revver, another video sharing website, also allows video owners to attach an "unobtrusive advertisement" to a video and offers a 50/50 revenue split.

A late update: Google has launched a sponsored video program. You can be sure they have video-related advertising ideas in mind.