i stumbled into a youtube ™ video.
it takes a popular song, changes the lyrics entirely, and plays over a re-edited hollywood film. there are hundreds of them, mostly bad. but not all. and why not? but it’s a nightmare of a legal issue. there was a solution to sampling in music, paul mccartney used to wet himself at the thought of the royalties everytime oasis released an album. and i suppose a similar solution is needed. where money is made it should be distributed based on original input, but there can be no requirement for licensing in advance. the amount of content holders in different media are large. youtube has to please all of them and, if/when it does, it will make a lot of money.
this is the first time i’ve embedded a video in a post. it took me about 3 seconds to work out. gotta love it.
