[Freebase-discuss] [BULK] Re: YouTube Topics

[Paul A. Houle]

  On 5/3/2012 7:36 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:
> Unfortunately, we don't have any immediate plans to map Youtube videos 
> to topics in Freebase. I think that this would be a really cool 
> service that someone could build on top of Freebase. Kind of like what 
> Paul did with Ookaboo <http://ookaboo.com/> except for 
> videos. Perhaps it could even be integrated with something like the 
> Seevl <http://seevl.net/> browser extension.
>
     It would certainly be nice to see Seevl tackle some subject areas 
rather than music.

     Browser extensions are  an interesting area:  it's an obvious idea 
that you could have a semantic browser extension that lets you put good 
semantic tags (i.e. mids) on web pages,  photos,  videos,  etc.  Imagine 
the Web 3.0 version of del.icio.us.

     I'd be concerned though,  that a good index of YouTube videos would 
be a weapon of mass destruction as connecting to "Creative Works" will 
turn up many renditions of those works that have questionable copyright 
status.  It's all good clean fun under the DMCA,  but somebody could 
make a cool jukebox that breaks all the RIAA rules.  I'd be worried 
about the liability.


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