“YouTube is UsTube”: Creators Step in to Defend YouTube

“YouTube is UsTube”: Creators Step in to Defend YouTube

Plenty of folks, from copyright lawyers to Internet entrepreneurs to investment bankers, have been watching the long-running legal battle between Viacom and Google/YouTube carefully, well aware that a decision in the case could have a profound effect on the future of the Internet. But most YouTube users probably haven’t given it the same attention. They should, and in an amicus brief filed in support of YouTube last week, a group of YouTube video creators explains why.

Calling themselves “The Sideshow Coalition” (because Viacom has called their interests a “sideshow”), these creators tell their own personal stories of how YouTube has helped them find a broader audience than they had ever imagined they could reach, with all kinds of unexpected effects. A few examples from the brief:

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