Something New with You Tube Videos

[Oak Kitten]

I went to my You Tube site to approve a comment on one of my videos, and I noticed a new button called "Copyright Info," which informs me that my video may contain copyrighted material - Ethel Merman singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the soundtrack of the stage musical "Gypsy."

Here is the interesting part, when my video is played now, there is a little commercial text at the bottom of the screen identifying the song and a link so you can "Buy the MP3." I think this is a GREAT idea. What I want to know is, what is the process for doing that? I would love to see that added to all the Janis videos on You Tube. If I know Janis, I bet she is already on top of this. If not, here's the head's up.

Oak

[hoops]

good to see you oak
peace
hoops

[janisian]

Oak, that's a GREAT idea! Hope you find out how to do it - let me know if we need to do anything on this end. We're pretty short staffed, but there's always the 3 am slump...

[Kathleen Brogan]

It's actually automatic! I did absolutely nothing but upload and "At Seventeen" showed as available for purchase on Amazon & I-tunes on one of the "Song to Soul" videos. It must be an automatic web search that happens and adds the songs. Believe me, I could never figure out how to do it myself. Also You-Tube emailed me that Sony owns the rights to the video too, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. They also didn't request that I remove the clip, so I was happy about that!

Hope this helps -

Kathleen

P. S. The video poster does not profit from the song purchase, oh well :)

[Eva]

Interesting...

Eva

[Oak Kitten]

It's actually automatic! I did absolutely nothing but upload and "At Seventeen" showed as available for purchase on Amazon & I-tunes on one of the "Song to Soul" videos. It must be an automatic web search that happens and adds the songs. Believe me, I could never figure out how to do it myself. Also You-Tube emailed me that Sony owns the rights to the video too, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. They also didn't request that I remove the clip, so I was happy about that!

Hope this helps -

Kathleen

P. S. The video poster does not profit from the song purchase, oh well :)

Kathleen,

Sony owns the rights to the "Gypsy" soundtrack as well. Perhaps Sony is driving this - will have to look and see if any other publishers show up on other videos. Anyway, from what I have read, You Tube has not been making any money, but I think this development may well make it profitable, and hopefully some of that profit will redound to the benefit of the artists.

Oak

[Oak Kitten]

Janis,

This URL has some amplifying info: http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2008/05/15/sony-bmg-sends-youtube-ads-instead-of-takedown.html

Oak

[Eva]

Glad to have you back Oak.

Eva

[Oak Kitten]

Here it is, straight from the source: http://ytbizblog.blogspot.com/

Best of all, according to the site, Block, Monetize, or Track Viewing Metrics — It's Automated, and It's Free

Free is good.

Well I guess we know what Janis will be doing at 3AM . . .

Oak

P.S.: Thanks all for the welcome backs (or is it welcomes back?) Anyway, its good to be back.

Oak

[sister rose]

Randy! Great to see you! :D

[Mary6906]

Glad you are back, Oak, we missed you! :)