Or will Google's take-over of YouTube be a success?
Naturally, the founders of YouTube'll be smiling all the way to the bank, but as the article attests: will this be one huge legal jungle for Google's lawyers, with ambulance-chasers after a quick buck issuing writs left, right and centre on behalf of their clients who own such and such video and audio clip that is held on the site's server.
Personally, I'd like to think that copyright-holders will see Youtube has one big marketing possibility and allow people to upload this and that, since for all said and done it is "exposure" for said product/film/performer, but if Google is forced it inhibit such uploads, and the site requires advertising revenue to function, then it could mean less and less people perusing the site which then means companies no longer spend so much on advertising revenue.
Mind you, I could be the only person who actually buys a CD even if I have downloaded song or songs from that same album for free, but I like to think I'm not...
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I would hope that they leave it as it is - I very rarely look at it (most links I see are from my LJ friends list), but it could perform an important marketing function.
Having said that, without advertising, how will they make money?
And I buys CDs too.
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