Intro:

Normal morning, my 4 yr old comes in our room with his animals wanting to play. I get up, make coffee, look over paper (will blog over here about interesting article later) and finally check my email.

In my inbox is a curious message from youtube.

Questions:

So it’s not as dramatic as “1984″, yet. I don’t have a problem giving credit where credit’s due. I gave Discovery credit for this video from the start, in the title and in the description of this video. This email leaves me with several questions:

1. How many others have gotten a similar email?
2. Under “Policy”, what are the others? (Will Not Allow content to remain, Send us your address so we can send the subpoena)
3. Line 8 of message, under the second paragraph, “Viewers may also see advertising on your video’s page.” What kind? (G, PG or R rated

Big Picture:

Now that the game has changed, Viacom win, companies are finding the copyrighted content you’ve uploaded. I turn to YouTube for movie trailers, news, professional development, show compilations/clips and childhood memories. So will Big Brother be Nice, continue to allow the sharing and remixing of their content, or Naughty making you pay and/or sit through ads to see their content? My guess is they’ll be somewhere in-between, regardless like family you have to deal with them.

Transparency:

I know the answers to some of the above questions for this particular video, I happen to work for Discovery Communications, LLC. I’m not worried about the ads from Discovery showing up or a subpeona, pink slip on desk would be more likely. If Discovery, through the YouTube Content Identification Program, found their content and can now place ads on that video’s page can anyone or any company(Viacom) do that? I’d say yes.