YouTube was sued on July 14th for copyright infringement, which opened many issues about members uploading videos with little oversight. YouTube is by far the most popular video sharing site with more than 100 million daily videos available, allowing the small independents to gain exposure.
The lawsuit was brought about by Robert Tur, an independent photographer famous for filming the 1992 Los Angeles riots; the issue was that his videos of the riots and other events were uploaded onto YouTube without his permission. This is going to be an ongoing issue with YouTube and other video publishing sites in that there are no guidelines whatsoever about the criteria for video uploading.
Since YouTube has such a high distribution rate, there is currently a controversy about the fact that YouTube doesn’t share ad dollars with the creators of their content (i.e. the general public), as does competing sites such as Revver.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/
jul2006/tc20060726_601698.htm?chan=top%20news_top%20news
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