Natalie Portman's recent rap sendoff shows up on the video search engine. This a few weeks after SNL's instant classic "Lazy Sunday" also found its way onto YouTube.The "Saturday Night Live" rap video sendoff starring "Star Wars" heroine Natalie Portman recently found its way onto video search engine YouTube before being taken down several hours later.
The video, no longer available, was broadcast March 4 on NBC.
It was taken down about 10 a.m. PDT March 6. In between, nearly 250,000 people saw some of it.
Portman's brief appearance on YouTube highlights once again the controversial nature of YouTube and other Internet communities where users can freely upload content for anyone to use or look at.
As the Portman video shows, YouTube and others of its ilk occasionally get material that may violate copyrights.
Read more here about how Yahoo, Google and others handle the situation.
A YouTube spokesperson said the firm has never refused a request from any copyright holders to remove a video from its archives. It gets such requests on a weekly basis.
The spokesperson adds that there's nothing wrong with what YouTube is doing, and that its actions are protected under modern-day copyright law.
More importantly to YouTube, a recent distribution deal with MTV shows it's constantly at-work with the copyright holders.
"We don't control the content on this site, and we are not required to do so under" existing digital copyright law, the spokesperson said.
"It's even hard to know if it isn't NBC uploading the video. That's the reality of what we're seeing."
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