Monday, January 15, 2007
Hollywood's Uneasy Relationship With YouTube
The New York Times has an interesting article on Hollywood's uneasy, and perhaps now changing, relationship with YouTube, newly taken over by Google. YouTube has long been an easy home for pirated movie and music clips, a fact that the entertainment industry has had trouble digesting. But now, Hollywood sees that YouTube might be helpful not just in traditional ways--for creating product buzz--but for the creation and distribution of new content and derivation material.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2007/01/hollywoods_unea.html