Creators Generate the Value on YouTube But Don't Get Much Back
While YouTube has become a talent incubator for big media companies, the creators responsible for the network's profits get little in return.
YouTube is probably the largest repository of video the world has ever seen. The site is worth more than $40 billion, and users upload more than 100 hours of video every 60 seconds. Within all that video, there is lots of copyrighted content, and Vice contributor Michael Sugarman wants to know where all the money generated from the content is going.
Sugarman points out that a YouTube user has uploaded a Korn album in its entirety, and that video received more than 1.3
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