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When Google bought YouTube yesterday, the sound you heard was every copyright lawyer in Hollywood cracking his fingers, because the beautiful success of YouTube was its wealth of copywritten material.
Now that deep-pockets Google is the new owner, what would keep Lindsay, Avril, and Ashlee's lawyers from suing Google for having a pirated video like this one on the air? And the sad thing is, as talented as Le Tigre is, they now could never make a video like this one because they'd have to pay all the celebs to use their images.
LAist predicts that this time next year YouTube will be a pleasant memory and nothing at all like we now know it to be.
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Tony,
I feel like the resident copyright crank, but let me just point out that Le Tigre having to pay celebs for using their images has nothing to do with who owns YouTube. Le Tigre could get sued regardless of where they post their video.
From what I understand Le Tigre didn't make this video, a fan did. One of the nice things about YouTube is that it has provided a forum for fans to make their own videos of their favorite band's songs. However with Google owning YouTube not only would the celebs possibly sue Google, but so could the bands, thus ending this brief creative surge of music videos that we now see. This video is just an example of that.
Tony,
I think your paranoia is unfounded. All but one of the major record labels have already done deals with YouTube that, as far as I understand it, will continue to let this sort of content be posted. The idea is that the labels will share in YouTube's ad revenue. The labels are starting to understand the power of this stuff and are trying to get in on the game instead of trying to bury it.