Thursday, 18. September 2008
Topic: VIDEO - on September 18, 2008 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
The next time you upload a copyrighted video to Youtube, you're going to pay.
The next time you try to upload a video to YouTube that isn't supposed to be there, you may find it being monetized by the original content owner. That's because YouTube has recently partnered up with Nexicon, a company that acts as the middleman between content monitoring and copyright owners, enabling them to either send out automated takedown notices or monetize the unauthorized streams. And this new service isn't likely to stop at YouTube, as the company plans to launch a similar one that will sort through numerous P2P networks for copyrighted content in order to send bills to those users. Best of all, Nexicon wants to patent the entire system.
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