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Earlier this week, we pointed out the letter the McCain campaign had sent YouTube concerning observing fair use before complying with takedown notices on political videos.

As we noted at the time, the problem with the situation wasn't with YouTube, but with the DMCA (which McCain voted for, by the way).

Now, YouTube's Zahavah Levine has responded to the letter, and made the same point.

This is impressive, and somewhat unexpected. It's rather rare to see politicians (other than maginal ones, at least) showing any sort of recognition of fair use.

It's certainly not an issue you'd expect to see raised by a presidential candidate (of either party). However, John McCain's campaign has sent a letter to YouTube complaining about the site's unwillingness to consider fair use in videos before taking them down.

Following in the footsteps of many other search engines not named Google, Yahoo is setting out on a big new ad campaign to try and get users to switch to its search engine.

The company has announced plans to launch an online display and terrestrial radio marketing program, featuring ads like the one pictured here.

In another move towards earning more revenue from its huge audience, YouTube has started streaming full-length TV shows that will include advertising.

The content, which includes Star Trek, The Young & The Restless, and Beverley Hills 90210 comes through a deal with CBS.

Advertising will include familiar formats like pre, mid, and post-roll.

PopTent is a new social networking platform for independent and freelance filmmakers and videographers where they can collaborate on projects and earn income as well.

Members (also known as Creators) create their profile as they do on other social networks and showcase their talents by sharing their video online.

Lots of folks are trying to figure out new business models in the music space, and here we have two separate big companies testing out ideas that seem unlikely to work all that well.

First up is EMI, the big record label that keeps insisting that its going a different route but can't seem to reign in its lawyers from taking the same old route.

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TalentTrove

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TalentTrove is a global online talent community created to help individuals share their talents with the world.

YouTube announced today an interesting addition to its Insights analytics dashboard. Called "Hot Spots," the feature displays the "bounce rate" of viewers in any publisher's video on a second-by-second scale.

Wondering if that joke you told went over well or not? YouTube will now tell you if a substantial number of viewers clicked away from ...

YouTube is releasing an new uploader which allows you to edit metadata while uploading, and while they're at it, they're increasing the file size limit to 1 GB (previously 100 MB).