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Obama's Transparent Presidency: Weekly YouTube Addresses

President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly addresses - fireside chats for the web generation - on YouTube. The first address will appear on Change.gov this Saturday, after it airs in audio. An Obama spokesperson says that this innovation is just the beginning of the digital, transparent presidency.

YouTube Fires Back At Viacom

As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the development of services like YouTube.' It goes on to say that the suit 'threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression.'

Should YouTube censor al-Qaida? - UPI.com

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., called Monday for YouTube to take down al-Qaida videos that users had posted, but the site said most of the videos his office had flagged did not contain material that violated their guidelines and rejected his request that they act to remove all material from U.S. designated terror groups.

Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos

YouTube has promised a commercial-free zone in the near future to help Congress deal with the problem of hosting campaign videos that were technically breaking the rule of not redirecting constituents to a commercial site.

Flickr Flicks at Video

What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of product management, calls these short videos 'long photos' moving snapshots that people can take with their point-and-shoot digital cameras.

Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage

An Internet expert likened the cause of the outage to "identity theft" by a Pakistani telecommunications company, which accidentally started advertising itself as the fastest route to YouTube. But instead of serving up videos of skateboarding dogs, it sent the traffic into oblivion.

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EU lawmakers fume over erotic YouTube clip - Online World

Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr said the shots in the clip drawn from award-winning films such as "Amelie" and "Bad Education" highlighted Europe's tradition of rich cinema. Selmayr said Tuesday that he had not received any complaints about the video, which was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in February as part of a four-clip media campaign.

How The Internet And Innocence Kill Culture

Andrew Keen, Author of Cult of the Amateur: How The Internet Is Killing Today's Culture says, "The cult of the amateur is the love affair that we all have for amateur-created content on the Internet. By amateur, I mean content created by people without the kind of monetary award that allows one to pay one s mortgage or put food on the table"...read more on www.orato.com...

Defense Dept. Blocking MySpace, YouTube

From the Put the Genie Back in the Bottle Dept: The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander. The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks, according to Bell.

Google to Viacom - The Law is Clear, and On Our Side

"Google responded to the opinion piece in the Washington Post by a Viacom Lawyer with a letter to the editor titled 'An End Run on Copyright Law.' Their strong wording sends a very concrete message: 'Viacom is attempting to rewrite established copyright law through a baseless lawsuit. In February, after negotiations broke down, Viacom requested that YouTube take down more than 100,000 videos. We did so immediately, working through a weekend.

EFF sues Viacom over YouTube takedown of Colbert parody

Oh Viacom, you should read those DMCA lists of clips before you order them taken down: The video, called "Stop the Falsiness," was created by MoveOn and Brave New Films as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on Colbert's portrayal of the right-wing media and parodying MoveOn's own reputation for earnest political activism.

Daily Show on Viacom sues YouTube

Daily Show tells kids to make their own Daily Show.

iFilm Infringement Could Blunt Viacom's YouTube Argument

"Infringing videos on iFilm could undermine Viacom's case against YouTube. Although it's arguably not a nest of infringement like YouTube, iFilm appears to host more than a handful of videos for which its corporate parent Viacom does not own the copyright. More importantly, Viacom isn't engaging in the kind of proactive infringement identification practices it expects of YouTube, which may cause problems for them in court.

Self-Portraits Morph into Video

This is an interesting article on self-portraiture and the Internet. It does not mention my friend Jeff Harris whose Web sites shows a picture taken of him everyday juxtaposed against comments from readers e.g. February 17, 2007: "I kissed my best friend's wife. And she kissed me back. Why do I feel so guilty? And why don't I care?"