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Marimar Hot on YouTube?
If you need any more proof that YouTube is huge in the Philippines, check out one of today’s most discussed YouTube videos.
Wonder how much money GMA’s leaving on the table by not partnering with YouTube or collecting royalties via video ID. Just hope they don’t get stupid and copyright-troll like ABS-CBN.
If anyone from GMA’s reading this, YouTube is owned by Google. Go ask Google Philippines Country Consultant Aileen Apolo for more info on how you can profit from all this.
ABS-CBN Pulls Down Interviewee’s YouTube Clip. And Her Little Dog, Too.
YouTube just launched a video identification system that gives copyright holders a choice: either automatically block their videos, or automatically profit from them. It’s an IQ test.
Unfortunately, Philippine TV network ABS-CBN is too dumb to even take that IQ test.
Filipino blogger Jepoy Bengero had his aunt and her dog interviewed on an ABS-CBN show last year. He uploaded a blurry phonecam clip of interview to YouTube at his aunt’s request. One year later, ABS-CBN has it pulled down.
The lesson here: don’t ever work with ABS-CBN. TV dinosaurs act like they own you. They let some dumb intern issue frivolous takedown notices based on nothing but badly-constructed keyword searches — without any regard for interviewees, fair use, context, or even accuracy.
