Hasn’t this kid ever heard of google, or wiki.
If you want influential you have to give the most up for YouTube. It has gotten so popular as a video sharing site that the RIAA has placed it square in their crosshairs. Saying that videos of people dancing to copyrighted songs put up on YouTube violates the law.
It seems that they have gone from “your friendly neighborhood videosite” to a less than benevolent conglomerate lately. Their terms-of-service now include an ownership clause similar to most contests. In effect stating that anything you post on YouTube becomes their property.
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.