Recently there were some very serious floods in Queensland Australia. A fellow named Pete Finn runs a channel there called TheFatAussieBarstard. He made a few videos about it and turned off the ads. He also made a video discussing how he was disgusted and felt people were exploiting the tragedy by collecting money from those ads. I tend to agree.
Here in the US we have a lot of charitable organizations and a lot of them are so top heavy very little money actually goes towards the cause. Big You Tube partners should either turn off the ads or put a disclaimer in the video stating at least a portion of the revenues from the ads are being donated or given to the people in the video. That would make some sense.
I am seeing several You Tube celebs jumping on this World Water Day. Hopping a plane and flying off to Haiti to show you the poor people there. But it just occurred to me they video recorded these people without their understanding what is happening to their images. Are they being exploited so someone can sell ads on You Tube channel pages? Are there release forms signed or aren't these people entitled to the same basic legal rights afforded most Americans? I knew if I appeared in a Lisa Nova video I'd like to be compensated somehow. Not just lip service as it would appear is going on here. Think about it we are not seeing any of their AdSense accounts so how would we know.
Here watch this video at You Tube Kenya #MusicForRain See, no ads. You can do that too. Turn off the ads it is supposed to be non-profit. Perhaps You Tube can come up with a category label "Non-Profit" that automatically turns off the ads for you.
Please don't get me wrong I like to feel like I'm doing some good by watching these warm fuzzy videos of celebs crusading around the globe but it seems like that is where it ends for them and when the cameras are shut off they have little or no interest in it. I imagine them saying, " You got your footage? Good, get me the hell out of this God forsaken place NOW." and ,"Where is my check?" I sincerely hope this isn't true.
Here in the US we have a lot of charitable organizations and a lot of them are so top heavy very little money actually goes towards the cause. Big You Tube partners should either turn off the ads or put a disclaimer in the video stating at least a portion of the revenues from the ads are being donated or given to the people in the video. That would make some sense.
I am seeing several You Tube celebs jumping on this World Water Day. Hopping a plane and flying off to Haiti to show you the poor people there. But it just occurred to me they video recorded these people without their understanding what is happening to their images. Are they being exploited so someone can sell ads on You Tube channel pages? Are there release forms signed or aren't these people entitled to the same basic legal rights afforded most Americans? I knew if I appeared in a Lisa Nova video I'd like to be compensated somehow. Not just lip service as it would appear is going on here. Think about it we are not seeing any of their AdSense accounts so how would we know.
Here watch this video at You Tube Kenya #MusicForRain See, no ads. You can do that too. Turn off the ads it is supposed to be non-profit. Perhaps You Tube can come up with a category label "Non-Profit" that automatically turns off the ads for you.
Please don't get me wrong I like to feel like I'm doing some good by watching these warm fuzzy videos of celebs crusading around the globe but it seems like that is where it ends for them and when the cameras are shut off they have little or no interest in it. I imagine them saying, " You got your footage? Good, get me the hell out of this God forsaken place NOW." and ,"Where is my check?" I sincerely hope this isn't true.
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