Recently, the extensively popular YouTube site has been asked to
removed more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from the sharing website
by Media company Viacom Inc., which owns the cable networks MTV,VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio.
The online search engine, Google is the parent company which is unwilling
to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content
available to theYouTube users. Both You Tube and Google are made
responsible not to provide proper filtering tools to the users. And
thus, they are required to eliminate inappropriate video clips.
In return, YouTube will comply with the request and will cooperate "with all copyright
holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified."
In fact, they had been threatened to be sued by the Universal Music Group, a division of French telecommunications giant Vivendi SA as they were known to be a center for pirated music videos, but later reached a licensing deal with them last year.
For instance, the video of the execution of Saddam Hussein, it may be very
disturbing to some of us, however If whoever filmed it had surrendered
his hand phone before the execution, the world may never have seen
beyond the mute, carefully-edited, tastefully-faded-out official video of the proceedings.
Oh well, it has been a new debate about human rights video today, what are the limits of human video rights?? Can it be a part of truth, justice and reconciliation??? hmm.. I am sure that each and every one of us has a different perspective about this issue.
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