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    YouTubers to get ad money share

    People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue.

    YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would "reward creativity".

    The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.

    YouTube has more than 70m users a month and was recently bought by Google.

    The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website.

    The company, which Google bought in November last year for $1.65bn, was currently working on "audio fingerprinting" technologies to identify copyrighted material, Mr Hurley said in a session on social networking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

    Speaking to the BBC after the session, he declined to give further details, saying that YouTube was still working out the technology and processes involved - both for the rewards system and the video clip advertising system.

    But he confirmed that the various features would be rolled out one by one over the next few months.

    "There won't be one big release," he said.

    The audience of the YouTube website will not have to put up with overly long "pre-roll" adverts. Mr Hurley said a clip of three seconds length was one of the options, although the details had not been worked out yet.

    Other video sharing sites such as Revver already split advertising revenues with users uploading original content, but only YouTube has managed to attract an audience measuring in the tens of millions.

    Mr Hurley said the fact that YouTube had not had a revenue sharing model was one of the reasons for its success, as that had allowed the website to focus on its key strength, making it easy to share videos with others.

    YouTube has repeatedly clashed with film studios and music publishers over copyrighted material that has been uploaded to the website.

    The company says that it is quick to remove copyrighted material on the site that has been brought to its attention.

    Since the takeover by Google, YouTube has also negotiated a string of deals with large media groups, which also involve some revenue sharing.
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  • #2
    IMO, google needs to create an operating system

    if they do something like Linux, but with reward, we'd be much better off

    the reward should go to the inovative

    good for Google
    Monkey!!!

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    • #3
      I should get paid to post here.
      KH FOR OWNER!
      ASHER FOR CEO!!
      GUYNEMER FOR OT MOD!!!

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      • #4
        I see a potential legal nasty.

        Currently, if some copyrighted material shows up on YouTube, YouTube can say, "It's not our fault. One of our stupid posters put it there. We have nothing to do with it."

        But now the response to that can be: "WTF?? You're paying for it!"

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        • #5
          The money should be paid out per post made. And it should of course be backdated (and take account of all the PCRs that have gone on...)
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          • #6
            Doddler: And perma-bans?
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            • #7
              Originally posted by DinoDoc
              Doddler: And perma-bans?
              I guess periods under bans could be ignored for this purpose. We're talking hypothetically, of course.
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              • #8
                Well Apolyton would be rewarding us for the quality of our posts and the value we add to the site. So it would only make logical sense for them to charge us for spammy posts that subtract value from the site.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by OzzyKP
                    So it would only make logical sense for them to charge us for spammy posts that subtract value from the site.
                    charging for posts
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                    Co-Owner/Webmaster, Top40-Charts.com | CTO, Apogee Information Systems
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by OzzyKP
                      So it would only make logical sense for them to charge us for spammy posts that subtract value from the site.
                      Don't give them any good ideas...
                      This space is empty... or is it?

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                      • #12
                        I'm happy to announce that as of February 1st all Apolytoners will be required to have valid credit card info in their profiles in order to be able to post
                        Co-Founder, Apolyton Civilization Site
                        Co-Owner/Webmaster, Top40-Charts.com | CTO, Apogee Information Systems
                        giannopoulos.info: my non-mobile non-photo news & articles blog

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                        • #13
                          Cool, what do we get paid per post?
                          Blah

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                          • #14
                            how about this: the money that spammers are charged are paid to non-spammers
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                            Co-Owner/Webmaster, Top40-Charts.com | CTO, Apogee Information Systems
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                            • #15
                              how about this: the money that spammers are charged are paid to non-spammers


                              Are you sure your back account can handle this, Markos?
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