Mathew Ingram blogs on a possible YouTube and Viacom deal and why pulling the Daily Show clips may have been a negotiation strategy.
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Does YouTube Deal Foreshadow Licensed P2P?
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version , BBC version ) examines the parallels between YouTube and Napster, asking whether the YouTube – Google deal might foreshadow licensed peer-to-peer systems. While some media companies, including Time Warner, speculated publicly late last week about possible lawsuits, it is […]
Does YouTube Deal Signal a Change for File Sharing?
Appeared in the Toronto Star on October 16, 2006 as Why YouTube Won't Be Napster Redux Two companies launched by twentysomethings burst onto the public scene and provide instant access to a seemingly unlimited array of popular content. Within months, they become household names with tens of millions of devoted […]
The Google – YouTube Deal
Lefsetz hits on precisely the right point – "if we can have a legal YouTube service, we can have a legal P2P service."
The Mentos Video
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, BBC version, homepage version) examines the enormous success of a video mixing Diet Coke and Mentos (which through a quirk of chemistry, sparks an immediate chemical reaction – a beverage geyser spurting several metres into the sky). Released for free on […]
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