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Google hires well-regarded music attorney to help negotiate YouTubes music licenses, new Google music store, and to create licensing template for cloud music. Lots of bloggers say theyre uncertain whether a YouTube clip features Apple CEO touring new retail store. Watching YouTube videos on mobile devices isnt great at the moment, but Googles YouTube hopes a redesign will make the site faster, easier to navigate. If online video on big-screen devices like HDTVs is ever going to take off, its going to need a specialized user interface.

Google has plugged the hole hackers used to festoon YouTube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-site redirects, according to a news outlet. Sure, HTML5 adds support for Web video that doesnt need Flash. Viacom loses its lawsuit against Googles YouTube, eBay buys RedLaser bar code scanning app for mobile shopping, and Verizon releases the Droid X just as the iPhone 4 launches with limited availability. Google wins a landmark copyright ruling after a judge throws out a $1bn lawsuit brought by Viacom against its YouTube service.

YouTube users looking for music to use in their videos without getting sued have Rumblefish to thank, and soon could have more options under a new service. Googles video site is working with a local TV station to a launch a new iteration of its YouTube Direct platform, which helps publishers tap video from amateur contributors. We get a look at the lens on the Altek Leo camera phone, New York commuters may be getting free Wi-Fi, and YouTube now has a cloud-based video editing tool. A Google tool lets people combine multiple videos into one and trim a specific video down to a desired segment.

YouTubes Moderator tool gives YouTube channel owners a way to prioritize and harvest user ideas. Court documents released Friday also show Viacoms top attorney defended YouTube, and Larry Page "cant recall" much about YouTube deal. The Web giant has released a royalty-free video technology to counter H. On the video sites fifth birthday, YouTube new-media honcho Kevin Yen notes the emergence of the youthful, do-it-yourself media mogul.

A Vietnamese Web site--the same one that purportedly did a teardown of an iPhone 4G--now seemingly has a new MacBook in its hands, according to a video posted on YouTube. YouTube has a new video privacy level that keeps your videos from being seen by other users, or YouTubes search engine, while removing some of the barriers for sharing the video with people who arent YouTube members. Some of YouTubes own content partners have jumped into the fray on the side of Viacom. Partners in YouTubes existing revenue-sharing program will soon be able to use an automated tool to let them charge for rentals.

YouTube is introducing a leaner and cleaner version of its player. Viacom claims that documents released Thursday in Viacom vs. From a manic cooking show hosted by a 3-year-old to a parody video of tykes acting out a scene from "Scarface," online videos of kids toe a fine line between being adorable and veering into digital-age stage parenting. Google launches a YouTube video to warn teens on how to control privacy and safely use Buzz.

A group of kids pound an iPad with a bat and post the video to YouTube. January redesign test going out live to all on Wednesday. Lawyers representing YouTube allege that Bob Tur, who had sued the video site over copyright concerns in 2006, was the source of a document leak to CNET that brought to light a deposition by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The experimental feature sought to bring an as-it-happens social aspect to Googles video-sharing site.

Because it relies on YouTube, there are some gaps in content, but this is basically the first free on-demand music app for the iPhone, making it a great value. Both companies on Thursday made hundreds of pages of court documents public in their copyright dispute over YouTube. Reams of court documents in the long-running battle between Google and Viacom over copyright material on YouTube were released Thursday. Parent company of Paramount Pictures and MTV, says YouTube contained "truckloads" of infringing content was a "rogue enabler of content theft.

Viacom says YouTube founders always intended to build video version of Napster and looked for ways to "to avoid the copyright bastards. RealNetworks loses lengthy RealDVD battle, TiVo gets closer to victory in its patent battle against EchoStar, and Google tries to make YouTube more accessible to hearing-impaired viewers. YouTube is making its auto-captioning technology available to everyone in the hopes of making closed captions an option for all users. YouTube is holding a press conference Thursday morning to discuss something.

An inside look at the series of tubes that makes up the worlds most famous video site. YouTube users can now sort and add music videos to playlists much like they do songs in their iTunes collections. Better search, customizable label colors, YouTube previews, and other features have graduated from Gmail Labs into the mainstream version of the Googles e-mail service. Sometime recently, the Google-owned site pulled one of its most popular music videos over a copyright violation.

Three executives were found guilty of privacy invasion, but not defamation, concerning a YouTube video of bullying a boy with Downs Syndrome. The popular Web video site is now providing parents with ways to keep kids from viewing videos flagged as inappropriate. Google launches a Facebook-like service in Gmail, YouTube helps block your children from searching for port and violence, and Netflix is going to stream at 1080p but not anytime soon. The Google ad that aired during the Super Bowl has inspired love, admiration, shock, tittering, tears.

The number of visitors to Warner Music Groups YouTube videos doubled in January and outpaced the much larger Vevo. The video ad, called "Parisian Love," had been on YouTube since November. If you want to catch actual performances from Sundays music awards show, YouTubes still your best bet, says Matt Rosoff. CEO Steve Jobs talks up the iPads video features, including YouTube streaming and the ability to watch movies and TV shows via the iTunes Store.

Those who watch the State of the Union address on YouTube can pose questions that President Obama will answer next week. Google offers one Web-based video encoding technology, but Mozilla strongly prefers another. A government decree, aimed at sites like YouTube, would require the vetting of videos with sexual or violent content. YouTube is working on a new look for its video playback pages thats leaner and cleaner than what its got now.

5-4 opinion includes what appears the Supreme Courts first mention of "blog," and also points to YouTube and social networking sites for why laws unconstitutional. The U. U. Ever wanted to turn YouTube into a musical instrument? Now you can, with the YouTube piano: a creative use of YouTubes annotation system. Viacoms $1 billion copyright suit against Googles YouTube is closing in on resolution.

At Googles headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. In addition to Stephen Colbert, "The Daily Show" host gives a deposition in Viacom-YouTube copyright case, as "South Park" creators are slow to produce documents. Want to watch YouTube videos with friends, while controlling what part of the video everyone is watching? Synchtube does that. A clip showing what appears to be the phone popped up on the Web Wednesday.

In perhaps one of the more spectacular YouTube performances of 2009, a child opens his Christmas present--an Xbox 360--and is transported to another dimension. David Nelson, the 16-year-old founder of a music-video service that piggybacks on YouTubes API, runs afoul of Vevo, the start-up video service backed by three of the top four largest music labels. The online version of the YouTube-based music service includes content from Vevo without pre-roll advertisements, as well as a crossfader. YouTube just rolled out a feature that keeps you up to date on the videos that your friends are sharing on Facebook.

Other top searches for kids under 18 included YouTube, Google, and Facebook, according to Symantec service. Intel gets five accented stuntmen together to shoot themselves out of cannons in order to achieve the worlds biggest Intel chime. YouTube names the most popular videos of the year, the Obama administration sets aside $2 billion for broadband, and you can now supersize your Wi-Fi at McDonalds. Unlike so many other year-end lists, Michael Jackson doesnt make the top five.

Googles CEO was one of the guest of honors at a party to launch the music video site Vevo. Vevo is the Web music-video service built by the big record labels with help from YouTube. Google puts YouTube on a post-Thanksgiving diet with a new mode called "feather" that strips out many of the things that can slow videos down. YouTube already lets users watch a smattering of TV shows for free, with ads.

Market research firm ComScore releases its data on online-video viewing for October 2009. The company that was supposed to kill YouTube is finally dead: some of its assets have been sold off to ad network Adconion Media in whats likely a total fire sale. Facebook has experienced tremendous growth in the number of users watching video on its site, putting it just behind YouTube and Hulu in October. Music videos are hot property and up to now have been dominated by YouTube.

A tour bus is stolen in Vermont. YouTube exec announces another bump-up in available YouTube resolution. Some Web sites have a more basic design, one created purely for function. Sunday night, fans wont have to travel to see U2.

In perhaps one of the most emotional YouTube videos ever created, Miley Cyrus raps about why she just couldnt tweet any more. The product of a London start-up, TubeRadio offers an iTunes-like interface and is a slick, convenient way to discover a great wealth of music. CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval talks about some possibly incendiary evidence that has been discovered in the Viacom-YouTube copyright case. After Googles $1. $1.

YouTubes internal e-mails indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. Companies sign multi-year deal that will bring labels videos back to YouTube and enable users to include Warners music in their clips. Ever wanted to make your own animated GIF from something like a video? Gifsoup lets you do it with YouTube videos, and with minimal effort. The Google Voice dispute continues, while Warner music and videos may soon reappear on Googles YouTube.

Social-publishing site Scribd is accused of egregious copyright infringement by lawyers defending Jammie Thomas-Rasset against the music industry. Accused by the largest music label of violating its copyright, Veoh wins court decision that says such sites are protected under Digital Millennium Copyright Act. According to a psychologist, Facebook, video games, and Sudoku enhance intelligence, whereas Twitter, texting, and YouTube actually reduce it. This would be a natural progression for YouTube, a company that has for the past year attempted to become a hub for feature films, but no deals are done yet.

Web fashionista William Sledd has turned his early YouTube celebrity into a social-media consulting job; Intel and Dell have good financial news; and Creative Commons gets half a million dollars richer. They went from everyday people to overnight Web stars, all thanks to a newfangled site called YouTube. Long knocked for being unable to turn amateur-made clips into profits, the video site will sell ads for anyone who comes up with a hot video. A graphic Welsh PSA of a teenage girl being involved in an accident while driving and texting has captured worldwide attention, shocking many and yielding more than 1 million YouTube views.

The deal means YouTube will get more professional content like CNN news and shows like "Gossip Girl," and Time Warner can sell ad time and control channels. A video that appears to be a near complete recording of the in-air collision last Saturday has turned up and is now available at the video site. An ad that appears to be for Microsoft Office 2007 in Germany features a wonderfully impossible waterslide stunt. Top 20 terms including "YouTube," "Wikipedia," and "sex," says Symantec, show that children want to be entertained, educated, and titillated.

Google is ponying up $106. $106. The Google unit says the JK Wedding Video, which has been a huge hit, is regarded as an example of excellent monetization--but it doesnt give any dollar figures. Web video start-up revamps its platform and adds an array of content partners to establish itself as a distribution center for content creators. Thanks to iTunes, YouTube, Guitar Hero, and the like, its possible for long-forgotten music to be revived in a big way--even if it had disappeared from the airwaves for a reason.

The latest YouTube video to capture the worlds imagination is a dance performed by a wedding party in a Minnesota church. Site is enabling video owners to share detailed statistics about who else is viewing their videos to the viewers themselves. School bus technology is improving Humvee safety, the Department of Homeland Security goes social, and a Taser apparently ignites gas fumes around a suspect. The software company already was paring down its Soapbox video site, but now it says itll be eliminated altogether.

YouTubes public relations department irked some bloggers by appearing to gloat about its potential for profits. A developer at Google has on his own come up with a way to put uploaded Web videos in stereoscopic mode and viewed with 3D glasses. At the request of Warner Music Group, a video that embeds the "Keyboard Cat" into an 80s-era Hall & Oates video has been silenced. Six months after Warner Musics songs disappeared from YouTube, the two companies are trying to hash out their differences, sources said.

Federal court dismissed some of the copyright complaints made by a class of plaintiffs because they were made overseas and arent protected by U. Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the duo that gave us Skype and Kazaa see first bust. Bruce Manley, whose YouTube videos show him to be a basketball trick shot sensation, has reportedly accepted a Twittered H-O-R-S-E challenge from Shaq. The size of singers celebrity is illuminated in its impact on the Web.

Totlol, a popular site offering a collection of hand-picked kid-safe YouTube videos, defers its July 1 closing as it searches for a sustainable business model. Joost chief is said to be a candidate for top spot at Brit broadcasting network, as video site continues to be eclipsed by YouTube and Hulu. TuneWikis Windows Media Player plug-in is part licensed lyrics spooler for your own songs and for streaming YouTube videos, and part social project. The Montana city wants applicants to provide all "Web site" user names and passwords--and lists YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace as example sites--raising privacy and free speech concerns.

Speaking with AdAge, Fliqz CEO Benjamin Wayne says that he cant see how Google can make the YouTube numbers work over time. The software maker plans to scale back Soapbox, its little-known site for user generated video content. Flip Video users are getting a handy software update that will allow them to very quickly (and privately) share video clips with friends and family sans YouTube or some other video host. Viewers can choose to watch an ad prior to the video starting or allow several ads to appear during the video.

As Facebookers prepare to take hold of their vanity URLs, a new film posted to YouTube portrays the real test of Facebook vanity: the status update face-off. New addition to the crowded landscape of music search engines offers a big selection, with results from YouTube, Imeem, and other sources, but its search function could be better. Vevo, the upcoming music video site from Universal Music and YouTube, will launch sometime this year with content from the two largest recording companies. Managers demonstrated a new stripped down player designed for people who have hooked up TVs to the Web.

Recording audio streams no longer requires a desktop application like Audacity, thanks to this Web site. In her second performance on "Britains Got Talent," YouTube sensation Susan Boyle begins with flat notes, but ended in progress to next weeks final. YouTube sensation Susan Boyle will sing Sunday in the "Britains Got Talent" semifinals. YouTube brand channel managers can now access user viewing data in Google Analytics, not just YouTubes built in Insight analytics tool.

Users of YouTube rival eBaums World and the imageboard 4chan site launch mass porn posting on YouTube. Apple uses a copyright claim to get recently posted videos showing features of Snow Leopard, its unreleased Mac OS X version, taken down from the Google video site. Google News has started embedding YouTube-hosted video reports directly on the page. The social music site plans to unleash a number of new syndication features for artists, from an iPhone app creator to YouTube integration.

Want to know some of YouTubes tucked-away tricks? We go in depth to show you some that can improve the way you watch and share you videos. The click-to-buy overlays that typically have enabled users to buy a song from iTunes or Amazon now will feature ads. One analyst believes YouTube might be able to sell ads against 9 percent of its videos this year. Rio Caraeff, executive vice president of Universal Music Groups eLabs, will head up Vevo, a joint music video project led by YouTube and Universal Music.

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