Sharing But No Sharing!

So, the Kazaa guys are putting an end to their lawsuit! And there is no more music file sharing servers... Well, kind of!

But, the emerging trend now a days is a different kind of sharing - Videos! And ofcourse, YouTube & Google Videos are the best examples of what I'm talking about. Now YouTube is facing the legals, for allowing people to post copyright videos in their site. Not only that, the ads against the videos are also becoming an issue!

This YouTube & video sharing concenpt is sure a run away success and hence, people just want to do the ground checks beforehand to settle things ahead! For me, I do feel YouTube is protected very well in this regard because, it doesn't take the ownership of the video -

"You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in ..."
- YouTube's Terms of Use

And if needed, the video can still be removed. And the ads are not against user's videos but are against the search terms and so I think, they still are in good shape...

So, here is one such copyright video which the owners (Fritz Grobe & Stephen Voltz) don't want to be in YouTube. (-- BusinessWeek)

And here is the other one (I guess) which has started the legal battle from Robert Tur!