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Google adds 400 full-length videos to YouTube catalog

Google has launched a new “Movies” category on its streaming-video site YouTube. The videos, which range from bizarre to obscure, are full-length films (we’re not sure some of them were ever in theaters) and are completely free.

YouTube upping the time limit of uploaded 10 to 15 minutes

YouTube has decided to make it markedly easier for you to get your fifteen minutes of fame. How? By upping the time limit of uploaded YouTube clips from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. Those of you who dream of posting a video of yourself singing Can’s Mother Sky into a kitchen spoon, go right ahead. YouTube’s just made your dream a reality. Here is the official word from Google:

Michael Jackson’s kids jokeing around on YouTube

There are several videos on YouTube featuring two of Michael Jackson’s children: his youngest son, Blanket, 8, and his daughter Paris, 12. Blanket is in most of the videos. He jokes around with his cousin, Donte, while re-enacting movie scenes from Star Wars and Monsters, Inc. In other videos, he talks about a comic book villain and painter Von Gogh.

Rap Group From South Carolina Arrested After Flashing Guns In A Youtube Music Video!

A total of ten people now face charges in connection with a music video posted on YouTube last August. Fountain Inn police say the video showed individuals handling guns in a public park within the city limits. "It just never ceases to amaze me that people would video themselves doing something illegal and then post it where people are going to see it," Chief Keith Morton told WYFF.

EMI joins Universal-backed music video site Vevo

Ap: Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York. EMI's videos on Vevo will join content from Universal Music Group, which holds the largest stake in the new venture. Sony Music Entertainment is also an equity partner along with Abu Dhabi Media Co., an arm of the Abu Dhabi government. EMI, which is based in London, will not take a stake in the company.