Thread: Web 2.0 Video Services

There was a time of unrestrained euphoria: All media, all relevant stock exchanges, analysts and millions of users seemed to give the principle of law. Indicative of the fast pace of business: The time is not even back a long time. Only the middle of last year were Web 2.0-video services like YouTube and My Video fully as the critically acclaimed Future of the Internet and not least as a new engine for the advertising network.

Not for nothing invested big players such as Rupert Murdoch media giant News Corp. and the search engine giant Google exorbitant sums to get the supposed gold mines in their own group during the competition managers are going to whether the seemingly sleepy golden opportunity had and the future for all those who had missed this important development, a little uncertain seemed .

About half a year, many millions U.S. dollars and a dozen minor court cases later, the tide has turned or is, considered less critical, at least in the balance. With the aforementioned big players in the background, the big User generated content platforms to worthwhile destinations for corporate lawyers from all walks developed.

Where then a handful of students with a few thousand dollars to the account the transactions initiated yet, are now available - News Corp. keyword. and Google - media giant in a responsible position, fat Christmas goose, it is now exempt.

This must not be necessarily equal to a lawsuit. The case study of U.S. channel Fox shows that the owners of the major Web 2.0 platforms, video tracks at the slightest pressure. Thus offered Google, apparently voluntarily, some 140 million U.S.