Maverick Idea

With earnings season dying down the debate over copyright issues and YouTube can go back to the front burner...it is all very entertaining.

Show business anyone?

Amanda Congdon, the former host of Web TV show Rocketboom, said a clip found on YouTube, a two-minute video taken from her site Amandacongdon.com, was used without her permission. During the clip, an advertisement for Valleywag was visible the entire length of the video. Congdon said Thursday she intends to contact Gawker Media to find out what the company’s relationship is with Belowtheradar.

“I don’t have a problem usually when a fan posts something, but I have a problem when someone is using it to advertise and doesn’t contact me,” said Congdon, who is now working with ABC’s Internet unit.
c/net

Of course those antics pale in comparison this weekend’s All-Star Vegas antics. Mark Cuban, back from Sin City, has some strong opinions about internet video and Google’s predicament:

I wasn’t going to write more about this topic. However, listening to Eric at the NBA Technology Conference got me thinking.

The prospects for the inevitable challenge coming for Google and Youtube’s position that they are protected by the DMCA’s safe harbors will be debated until a case goes to court. What is becoming more interesting is whether their decision to hide behind the DMCA safe harbors, and to let Youtube continue to do so as well will turn out to be a good business decision, or hurt them in the long run. blog maverick

Sumner Redstone has had a good run over the last century but we wonder if he remembers that his marketing orientation made him the King...Still, he is back on the offensive today…

Joost Gets Some Viacom Love
Om Malik/New TeeVee

although it remains to be seen if he will go with the flow..

The wise company today will go with the flow of the public’s desires and try to figure out how to make money by helping them do what they want to do. That may sound obvious, but it’s not how media work. In the age of consumption, control was what media were about. In the age of creation, they should be about enabling. BuzzMachine

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