YouTube Takes You to (Copyright) School

YouTube has recently announced the opening of their new Copyright Help Center.  Along with this announcement is the opening of YouTube Copyright School, which users will have to complete a tutorial if they are caught violating copyright. 

This is hopefully an attempt to keep fewer accounts from being suspended due to accidental or unjustified copyright claims, though it has been made clear that the removal of copyright strikes is still not guaranteed.

Setting up FMLE for YouTube Live

Here's a video I made to try and help someone who is trying to use the YouTube Live Streaming feature.

YouTube Live, but not THAT Live

The rumors were true, YouTube is experimenting with Live Streaming.

YouTube Adds Features to Video Editor

I don't have too much experience with the feature (never really needed to use it, and I had problems with it when I tried), but YouTube has added a few new features to it's video editor.


Features added include a stabilizer, which attempts to remove unsteady camera shaking from a video, and a 3D editing feature, which is an attempt to make YouTube 3D video much easier to create.

You can check out the full details here.

YouTube Creator Institute and YouTube NextUp

Last week, YouTube announced their YouTube Next campaign.  At that time, it was a bit unclear as to what this actually meant.  Over the past couple of days, the Official YouTube Blog has cleared up some of the confusion, and has announced two programs (or contests) with the hopes of getting people in front of (or perhaps behind?) the camera.

Subscription Buttons Broken Today?

I've heard the subscription buttons were broken today.  Maybe by the time anyone sees this, they will be fixed, but yeah...

YouTube Partner Virtual Meetup...?

YouTube has just announced on their blog that they will be hosting a 'YouTube Partner Virtual Meetup' on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 2PM PST (5PM EST).

YouTube is currently accepting questions on the Official YouTube Channel, where the live event will be streamed.  The event will also accept feedback and questions live via Twitter (using the tag #YTPartner).