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YouTube Gets Break On Some Claims In Copyright Case

A federal judge has dismissed some claims for damages against Google's YouTube in a class action copyright suit involving music publishers and Britain's Premier League. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ruled that damages are not available for any foreign works that are not registered in the United States except those that fall under a live broadcast exemption.

YouTube Dominates Video In The U.K.

The total number of videos viewed online in the U.K. in April grew 47 percent over a year ago to 4.7 billion videos, according to a new report from comScore. The report found that 21.8 million U.K. Internet users viewed a total of 971 million online display ads on multimedia sites during the month. Google sites were the most popular U.K. online video property during the month with 2.4 billion videos viewed, an increase of 58 percent compared to a year ago, driven by the popularity of YouTube, which accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on the property.

YouTube About to Become Higher Quality

YouTube has doubled the size of what users are now able to upload at a time. Until now, users were only able to upload 1GB, and now they can upload 2GB. This means longer videos with higher resolutions. YouTube product manager Ryan Junee also points out that users can upload large HD files directly from their cameras. Essentially this means, we will start seeing a lot more quality (at least picture-wise) videos on YouTube.

YouTube Advertising Options Expand

Links within YouTube ads have, until now, done little more than send viewers to other YouTube videos.  And so they've represented the equivalent of infomercials that didn't supply telephone numbers - the home audience is only encouraged to keep watching, not complete a purchase.  But new Call-to-Action overlays address this issue. Advertisers can now get their YouTube ads to link to other sites.  The option doesn't cost anything extra, and it's been made about as simple as can be.

YouTube Gets Serious About News

Over the weekend, YouTube made a couple news-oriented announcements. It would appear that the site is looking to become more of a resource for news content than ever before, and that means news from established publishers as well as amateurs. Publishers Invited to Become YouTube Partners

YouTube Sees Massive Increase In Mobile Video

YouTube is reporting that in the last six month uploads from mobile phones have jump 1700%; and since the iPhone 3GS with video came out last Friday uploads have increased by 400% every day.

YouTube Launches New Movie Trailers Page

YouTube has launched a new page devoted solely to movie trailers. Question is, why are they just now adding it? Are you surprised that YouTube just added this page. Let us know.

YouTube Gets Mobile Boost From New iPhone

Google said today that the number of videos filmed on mobile phones and uploaded to YouTube has increased 400 percent since the release of Apple's iPhone 3GS last Friday. The new device allows users to film video clips and upload them wirelessly to YouTube. The increase is part of an overall trend with mobile uploads to YouTube surging by 1,700 percent in the last six months.

YouTube Rolls Out New Channels Design

Update: YouTube has made an official blog post saying they're ready to start rolling out the new channels design. Here's a new video about the redesign.  

Google Launches All For Good

Google, Craigslist Foundation, YouTube, FanFeedr and UCLA have partnered to launch a new site called All for Good, which is designed to connect volunteers in their local communities with charitable organizations. All for Good helps people find ways to get involved in their community, from being a mentor to helping design a website for a nonprofit. The platform allows people to sign in to Facebook or Google to share volunteer activities with others across social networking services.