Post Tagged with: "user generated content"

Putting Viacom – YouTube in Perspective

Henry Blodget points to a Vidmeter study that analyzes YouTube takedowns. The finding? Viacom content represents a very small percentage of overall content and video streaming, confirming the view that YouTube is really about user-generated content, not clips from mainstream media.

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April 3, 2007 2 comments News

Scassa on Citizen Journalism and Privacy

Dal law prof Teresa Scassa points to the intersection between user-generated video and PIPEDA.

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January 31, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CBC To Embrace Web 2.0

Tod Maffin reports on a memo circulated today and Ian Ketcheson responds with some suggestions.

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January 31, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

CBC on Online Video Sharing

I spent an hour yesterday talking about the impact of online video and social media on CBC's Ontario Today.  The discussion and callers highlighted the great benefits (ie. musician talking about the benefits of the Internet) and the anxiety that some parents feel about their kids interaction with MySpace, Facebook, […]

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January 24, 2007 1 comment News

Policy Responses to the User-Generated Content Boom

After a two-week hiatus, my weekly Law Bytes column is back (Toronto Star version, homepage version) with some reflections on Time Magazine's selection of "You" as the person of the year.  Starting from the premise that the choice may ultimately be viewed as the tipping point when the remarkable outbreak of Internet participation that encompasses millions of bloggers, music remixers, amateur video creators, citizen journalists, wikipedians, and Flickr photographers broke into the mainstream, I focus on how governments and policy makers might assess how they fit into the world of a participatory Internet and user-generated content.  I argue that it can do so by focusing on the three "C’s" – connectivity, content, and copyright.

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January 8, 2007 Comments are Disabled Columns