A presentation for Living in the information age. YouTube Regaluations

1. Seth Bumbalough

2. YouTube is the #1 video sharing website in the
world
Created by college students trying to find a way
to share videos online
Currently owned by Google

3. As found on YouTube

5.  Tur vs. YouTube
 Robert Tur (July 14, 2006)
 Professional photographer
 Filed lawsuit for several of his videos which were on
YouTube without permission
 Lawsuit not held due to Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA)
(Breen 2007, Griffith & Mckinny 2007, Pike 2007)

6.  Viacom vs. YouTube
 1 Billion Dollar lawsuit by Viacom
 Federal Judge ordered viewer history of YouTube to
Viacom
 I.P. Privacy concerns were brought up
 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) upheld personal
privacy concerns
(Brown 2007, Helft 2008, Holahan 2008)

8.  YouTube is a social network
 People share new videos
 Very engaging materials
 Allows for comments and messages from YouTube
users with another on these videos and personalized
pages
(Lange 2008)

9.  Diversity in Content
 May help find target groups with what is posted
 Possibility of low cost advertisement
 YouTube does not have to submit to National Law
Standards (Except copyright laws)
(Vintersvärd 2011)

10.  YouTube is a great way to network and show off
talent in video production
 Copyright laws are a nuisance to YouTube, but has
been able to use several laws to make sure viewers
privacy is kept private
 YouTube regulates users and what content they
share if copyright materials become an issue with
any individual(s).

11. Breen, J. C. (2007). YouTube or YouLose? Can YouTube
Survive a Copyright Infrignement Lawsuit. The Berkely
Electronic Press
Brown, J., Butzer, C., & Latham, R. (2007). Legal Implications of User
Generated Content: YouTube, MySpace, Facebook.
Griffith, D., & McKinney, B. (2007). Can Heather Gillette Save
YouTube? Internet Service Providers and Copyright
Liability. Issues In Information Age, 3(2).
Helft, M. (2008). Google Told to Turn Over User Data of
YouTube. The New York Times.
Helft, M. (2008). YouTube Blocked in China, Google Says. The New
York Times.

12. Holahan, C. (2008). Viacom vs. YouTube: Beyond Privacy.
Business Week.
Lange, P. (2008). Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social
Networking on YouTube. Journal of Computer-
Mediated Communication, 13, 361-380.
Pike, G. H. (2007). Legal Issues: Google, YouTube, Copyright,
and Privacy. Information Today, 24(4).
Vintersvärd, A. (2011). Copyright in Social Media A
Preparatory Study in Access to Protected YouTube Clips.