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Google has disabled both uploads of videos and comments on the Korean version of YouTube after the South Korean government tried to enforce a new law which requires web sites with at least 100,000 users to verify the person’s real name if they upload files or leave comments. The Cyber Defamation Law, as it’s called, went into effect on April 1st. According to officials at the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator, the law is an attempt to quell the cyber-bullying and spread of misinformation on the internet. However, critics say that it’s just another example of the Lee Myung-bak government’s overzealous efforts to monitor and control cyberspace. Read the rest of this entry »

Natasha Wescoat is an artist and illustrator with a passion for community and social media. She authors a blog at NatashasArtCandy.com.

Videoblogging isn’t just for teenyboppers with Flips. It’s a simple way professional creatives can make use of high traffic sites like YouTube to showcase their work and communicate with their audience in a fun and effective way.

Videos are a great way to offer your audience a window into your world. Artists can create their own YouTube channel and embed videos on their own website or blog. Viewers can see the artist at work, listen to their thoughts, and watch them create, establishing a more tangible experience with the art.

Here are 5 ways artists can use YouTube:

1. Tell a story

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Looks like Youtube is planning to do a Pay for download feature to partners in which partners can allow and even charge a licensing fee for downloading their videos.  “Hey kid, you wanna see my vlog? That’ll be $50 kid!”

Features: Licenses for pay to download videos

The following options are available for pay to download videos:

• LICENSE: Personal, non-commercial use only
  The copyright owner allows only personal, non-commercial use of this video. You may not reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, or make derivative works of this video.
• LICENSE: Creative Commons (Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works)
  The copyright owner allows distribution of this video with attribution but prohibits commercial use or derivative works. For more information about this license, please read: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.
• LICENSE: Creative Commons (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike)
  The copyright owner allows distribution and also creation of derivative works of this video, in each case with attribution and under the same or similar license as this license, but prohibits commercial use. For more information about this license, please read: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.
• LICENSE: Creative Commons (Attribution)
  The copyright owner allows distribution, commercial use, and derivative works of the video provided there is attribution in each case. For more information about this license, please read: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
• Public Domain
  This work is not under copyright protection.

For information about Creative Commons, see http://creativecommons.org/about/.