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Political “dirty tricks” have been around since well before Donald Segretti was on the scene; but now they are emerging in the world of new media. To cite one recent example, there was the Web video that merged Hillary Clinton and “1984.” Is Web video, with its relative anonymity, the new home for dirty tricks? -
1voteGraduate posts on Youtube, upsets university and students. "The five-minute clip, identified as a film about Winston-Salem State football, showed a fistfight between two ex-athletes, up-close shots of scantily clad women dancing, a depiction of players mixing grain alcohol, a picture of an athlete defacing another university's property, and enough foul language to make a rapper blush."
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1voteOnline video sharing exploded so quickly that the technologies that empowered it -- and certainly the media industry -- could barely keep up. Less than a year after it’s launch, YouTube now has over 100 million videos and was recently purchased by Google for $1.65 billion. Time Magazine named it 2006’s invention of the year. With numbers like that, big media is taking notice. And as amateur creators gain more notoriety, they’re beginning to demand money as well. It seems as though the free-for-all is over. All of a sudden the big questions are being asked – questions about copyright, sharing etiquette and compensation for artists.
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1voteYouTube recently pulled 30,000 videos following a complaint from the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers. The development is part of a quickly-shifting terrain for YouTube, recently plucked by Google for $1.65 billion.
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