It didn't take long for user-generated content to translate to user-generated profit. But as the giants have their weird litigious and incestuous thing going on both in the courtroom and in the boardroom, YouTube users aren't just getting the shaft, they're getting mud kicked in their faces.
Here's Your 15 Minutes And Your DMCA Notice
Have a seat. This could take a minute. A YouTube user submits his video to YouTube and it becomes popular to the tune of millions of views. And the user gets, well, his 15 minutes.
According to YouTube's
As does another show: "Web Junk."
"Web Junk" is a show that runs on VH1 featuring the week's most popular viral video from the Internet. Much, nearly all, of the content on the show comes from you-know-where.
Now, the irony would be much too sublime if Viacom was violating YouTube's terms of use that prohibit transmitting YouTube videos in a non-streaming format for commercial use without YouTube's permission. No, we'll assume Viacom licensed the videos through YouTube like they were supposed to.
Which means, again, YouTube and Google, who are being sued by Viacom, are also making money from Viacom, who is also making money from YouTube content while the uploader gets his 15 minutes. "Folks, this is, as we say down here in the south, "bass-ackwards". Well, that's one way to put it. Another way might be to suggest that Web 3.0 comes with some user content rights.
But wait it gets worse.
Christopher Knight has a word for one of Viacom's latest actions: "chutzpa." It's a Yiddish word, if you didn't know, for "unbelievable gall or audacity." Knight's video was viewed a few hundred thousand times on YouTube before being featured on "Web Junk."
He didn't complain, according
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