Since I enjoy using YouTube and I also make posts there, I have
adopted my own set of rules concerning comments posted to my videos:

1.  If the comment appears to be in good faith, I usually wait for
another viewer to post a reply, rather than answer it immediately,
myself.  My hope is that the additional responses will take on a
"forum" atmosphere.

2.  If the comment is mildly obnoxious, I do nothing.

3.  If the comment is totally out of character with the video and
is obnoxious, I block the user on the first offense and remove the
comment.

4.  If the comment comes from a teenage or younger viewer, and
is "Revisionist", my response is mild.  Two examples are below.

(a) A young aviation enthusiast "hastened" the demise of TWA by several
years, and got the transatlantic service withdrawal totally mixed up.
I did not correct him.

(b) Another viewer claimed the plane I was landing was not a 727.
I merely asked him what he thought it was.  He probably didn't figure
that the dude posting the video was also the dude flying the plane and
thus challenged the 727 video identification.

YouTube is getting tough on copyright infringement, perhaps too tough.
My last three postings have given me warnings of "Third party ownership"
of my content.  A group named "Music Publishing Rights Collecting
Society" has claimed that they may own or administer content within my
videos.  YouTube advises me to do nothing, but then goes on to say that
adverts may appear next to my video.

The first time this happened to me, I googled "Music Publishing Rights
Collecting Society" and found widespread complaints of YouTubers being
warned.  In one case a rock band doing a beach gig of their own stuff
received the warning.  Little can be found out about the Society.

The second time I received the warning, I deleted the video and
re-posted it without any song titles and got no warning.  My third
episode is still listed as private and no one has seen it.  The piano
was playing a Chopin roll.  Since that video was a progress report of
a Mason & Hamlin Ampico B piano that I am restoring, I just put the
video on my web page that explains that project.  Without going to You
Tube and dealing with the society that claims Chopin's music, you can
see the video here:

  http://web.me.com/bobtaylor5/Mason_%26_Hamlin/Movie_of_Ampico_B.html 

Bob Taylor,
Missouri