YouTube: Where cultural memory and copyright converge

Film Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-57

  Hilderbrand, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Copyright; Cultural memory; Piracy; Streaming video; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649149374     PISSN: 00151386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/fq.2007.61.1.48     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Time, 25 December 2006.
2. See Ellen Seiter, "Television and the Internet," in Television and New Media Audiences (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 115-30,
3. and Lisa Parks, "Flexible Microcasting: Gender, Generation, and Television-Internet Convergence," in Television after TV, eds Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 133-56.
4. Palmer S., Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV.
5. C-SPAN later requested the take-down of a clip from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's blog nine months later. See Noam Cohen, "Which Videos are Protected? Lawmakers Get a Lesson," New York Times, 26 February 2006 (accessed online).
6. Bob Garfield, "YouTube vs Boob Tube," Wired, December 2006 (http:// www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/youtube.html, accessed April 29, 2007).
7. See Sonja Baumer, "You Tube vs. Main Stream Media: Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?" Flow 5, no. 9 (March 2007).
8. The conventional wisdom that infringing clips are the most popular has been challenged by tracking service Vidmeter, which found that clips subject to takedown requests made up less than ten percent of content and only slightly more than five percent of the page views. Dan Mitchell, "YouTube s Favorite Clips," New York Times, 7 April 2007 (accessed online).
9. See Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: When Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006), 13-16.
10. I previously developed the idea of "bootleg aesthetics," in "Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics," Camera Obscura 57 (2004), 57-91.
11. Quoted in Sam McManis, "It's You. It's YouTube," Sacramento Bee, 14 March 2006, n.p.
12. Charlene Li, quoted in Andrew Ross Sorkin and Peter Edmonston, "Google Is Said to Set Sights on YouTube," New York Times, 7 October 2006.
13. As John McMurria has observed, the "community" rhetoric was rampant and open to dispute following the sale of YouTube to Google. See John McMurria, "The YouTube Community," Flow 5, no. 2 (2006), http://jot.communication.ut.exas. edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1995.
14. This price reflects market deflation compared to the $5.7 billion Yahoo paid for the short-lived broadcast.com, even during the economic resurgence of the so-called web 2.0. This figure for broadcast.com appears in John Cloud, "The YouTube Gurus," Time, 25 December 2006, 69.
15. See Michael Learmonth, "Viacom Sues YouTube, Google," Variety, 13 March 2007,
16. and Jeremy W. Peters, "Viacom Sues Google over YouTube Video Clips," New York Times, 14 March 2007 (both accessed online).
17. Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Vintage, 2002), 23-25.
18. The description in quotation marks appears in a statement by a representative of the Motion Picture Association of America in Andrew Wallenstein, "Catch YouTube If You Can," Hollywood Reporter, March 21, 2006, n.p.
19. Heather Green, "Waiting For the Payoff; The video-sharing Web site is a runaway success - everywhere but on the bottom line," Business Week, 18 September 2006, 56.