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Making millions with content curation!

by Curtis2011
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Lately I've been noticing that any time I search for a movie scene on Youtube, I end up landing on a video posted by this account called "movieclips".

Apparently, all this account does is take tons and tons of scenes from movies, edits them into decent quality clips with their logo embedded into the video, and puts them up on their Youtube channel.

As you can see from the channel, they have more than 728 million views, which is incredible considering they got all those views by simply displaying content that other people made.

Somehow, I doubt they actually own the copyright for all those movies! But maybe their short clips fall under fair use doctrines. I don't know for sure.

I once heard that a famous Youtube user said that his partnered videos made him about $3000 per 1M views on the videos he made, on average. If this number is accurate, then the owners of the movieclips account have made around $2.1M USD from simply posting scenes from movies onto their Youtube account!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim35
    Wow that channel does get the views I guess they make some good money doing that but I find it lame.
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  • Profile picture of the author thedanbrown
    Never seen this before but I think it's not considered copyright infringement because they modify the clips to a certain extent so it falls under curation...
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  • Profile picture of the author cybercyborg
    As thedanbrown suggests, that wouldn't actually violate copyright because it would be considered as curated content. The same applies for videos and with Software like "Curationsoft", you can curate content for your blog or site from authority sites... without violating any copyright.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikelmraz
    Personally, I would think that they have some license to run those movie clips considering how long and blatantly they have done it. Also, I don't see how because they have edited the videos, that this somehow gives them the right to publish the videos. I would venture to say it is a worse violation of copyright?
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