Montreal web-media darling Casey McKinnon has an opinion in the Guardian (yeah, that Guardian) about mainstream media trying to screw over independent web producers. With all sorts of TV shows popping up that are basically just collections of popular YouTube videos, it's rather a propos.
Of course, it's not just web video producers that are being screwed over. Newspapers are screwing freelancers and bloggers, new media is screwing over other new media, and all media are hopping on this "crowdsourcing" bandwagon, trying to save money by getting other people to work for them for free. Then they slap their own copyright notice on it as a crystal clear "fuck you" to the community that helps build them.
That won't change until everyone starts seriously demanding more than just seeing their creation on television.
[...] sue). It’s their YouTube clip show, in a sea of upcoming YouTube clip shows that seek to cheaply license popular clips owned by people who have no idea of their actual worth. The show’s reason for watching it instead of, say, just checking out YouTube’s most [...]