Check out the post from Micki Krimmel on Worldchanging. She sums up some of the issues facing all of us creating video content for the new century:

Whether or not you’re a fan of online video, you should at least be paying attention. Online video is much more than the sum of its current parts. It’s more than silly lipsynching videos, movie trailer mash-ups, YouTube, citizen journalism, video-blogging, and the birth of a brand new independent art movement. Online video is all those things but it’s also forging the path for new media. As Old and New Media become one and the same, the importance of how this all shakes out cannot be underestimated.

And about the recent MyHeavy.com debacle:

Videobloggers are looking to create a set of standards – an accepted etiquette for sharing video content on the web. (See Mike Meiser’s wiki on the topic.) They want to decide for themselves how others can and cannot use their work. Most videobloggers have benefited from the unrestricted sharing of their content on the web, and as a geekier group than most, many are staunchly against DRM. So how can online video artists support open media by allowing the free sharing of their content but still retain ownership and ensure their ability to make money from their work?

Read the full article here.