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Recently, a federal judge ruled that content owners are liable for DMCA takedown requests made against videos that are fair use. In other words, copyright holders can be sued if they issue wrongful takedown requests against videos that are considered ... [More] fair use (for example, Go Army: Bad Guys). Ever since YouTube started automatically scanning for copyrighted [...] [Less]

Yesterday marked 5,000 channels in the Miro Guide. It’s growing faster than ever (just a few months ago we hit the 4k mark), and is about to get better than ever. Soon, we’re going to be rolling out a fresh version of the channel guide. It’s already looking amazing and more importantly I think it’ll help [...]

If you’re shooting video with a small camera (still digital camera, cell phone, or flip-camera), you can safely ignore this post. However, if you use a camcorder that is primarily designed for video, you should listen up! What is Interlacing? ... [More] Interlacing is a clever hack, developed in the 1930’s, to avoid flicker on television sets. Many modern [...] [Less]

If you aren’t familiar with Democracy Now!, it’s a great progressive news program that is syndicated daily across hundreds of outlets: NPR radio, public access TV channels, PBS, DISH (Free Speech TV), satellite (LinkTV), and more. Democracy Now! ... [More] distributes their show over Miro, but until today, the video image was a bit muddled. Last Friday, [...] [Less]

Yesterday, I noticed a few pingbacks coming from Evulgo.org; when I visited, I was surprised to see an entire blog dedicated to video feeds and Miro! The whole blog is in German (which I don’t speak), but as I skimmed I saw pointers to blog posts we’ve written here, along with a bunch of original [...]

Rounding out a recent trilogy of YouTube-related posts, today I’m going to explain a little bit about finding and making RSS feeds for YouTube content. These tricks can free content that you’ve uploaded and subscribed to, from the confines of the ... [More] YouTube Universe. Importing All of Your YouTube User Subscriptions There are some useful RSS feeds [...] [Less]

Last week, I talked about the most popular channels on YouTube, but that’s only part of the story. As I said then, an unfortunate consequence of YouTube’s overwhelming market dominance is that content producers can feel compelled to publish there first, and sometimes use it as their only means of distribution. It’s fortunate, [...]

Professor Lawrence Lessig reports on a ruling that protects “open source licenses.” The opinion was rendered by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (they have the final say on US Intellectual Property disputes). The the provisions outlined by the Artistic License were upheld as legally binding. The precedent set here should also [...]

Last Thursday night, protesters projected human rights images including: monks being arrested, olympic rings turning into handcuffs, and so on, onto the side of the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan. Video of this event was uploaded to YouTube, and has ... [More] since been removed at the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The video is a [...] [Less]

The Miro Guide is growing super fast — we’re closing in on 5,000 channels! As new channels are added, we test them out to make sure they work properly. Usually a team of volunteers takes care of this stuff, but lately it has been exclusively handled by our friend Robb. He has done an awesome [...]