March 21, 2006
The rise of clip culture online
The popularity of the websites that allow people to share short video snippets is leading to the rise of a clip culture, according to internet law professor Michael Geist, reports the BBC - and it's spilling over from the Internet to cell phones.
... "The emergence of video sharing sites is yet another seemingly instant internet success story that has caught many by surprise.
The best of user-generated video today attracts large audiences and competes with anything being offered on the major networks.
... From a business perspective, media companies are being forced to grapple with the competitive threat of user-generated content and to determine how to address unauthorised sharing of their clips.
... Telecommunications companies and intransigent broadcasters face an even tougher choice, as their vision of an on-demand converged internet, must now compete with the clip culture.
This presents new challenges, since users are increasingly not satisfied with merely consuming content, but rather demand the ability to share and re-create it."
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