IP Democracy: Yahoo! Goes After YouTube Market

Online portal giant Yahoo! announced this morning a new site called Yahoo! Video that looks a lot like, well, YouTube. (The comparisons with YouTube are everywhere.)

The site allows viewers to upload their homemade videos and browse and download videos uploaded by other users. Yahoo Search blog has a more user-friendly description of the site’s functions.

By throwing its hat into the user-posted video ring, Yahoo! is taking on the same copyright headaches that have bedeviled the phenomenal YouTube. Indeed, Gary’s write-up of Bill Gates’ D conference talk notes that the billionaire himself said that although he is a big fan of YouTube, Microsoft isn’t ready to take on all those copyright messes that a YouTube lookalike would entail.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on June 1, 2006 9:54 AM to IP Democracy