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Since July, Tsui's medley of Michael Jackson hits has been viewed more than 2.4 million times - but he hasn't made any money yet from that music video or any of the others he and a classmate have produced. Like many viral sensations, he is suddenly trying to navigate a maze of advertising offers, promotional deals and legal issues in the hopes of making a (typically small) fortune from Internet fame. (Watch Sam Tsui explain his YouTube success...
Which clips does YouTube help monetize? Says spokesman Aaron Zamost: "We look at factors like the number of views, the video's virality and compliance with the YouTube terms of service." That last bit rules out videos with third-party copyrighted music like Tsui's Jackson medley, which stays online only with the goodwill of record companies...
...GARY JACKSON, former president of private-security firm Xe Services, once known as Blackwater, responding to questions from the New York Times about a report that the company authorized the payment of about $1 million in bribes to Iraqi police to silence criticism after a 2007 massacre in Baghdad...
...midnight-Thursday shows. This was another new record, and it exceeded the entire weekend gross of five of the No. 1 pictures of autumn: Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (in its second frame in the top slot), Michael Jackson's This Is It, Paranormal Activity and the horror comedy Zombieland. That last stat should end, for now, the question of whether zombies are the new vampires. These days, with Wolverine hogging DVD shelves and Jason's hirsute brethren commandeering the mall marquees, it's werewolves who will give...
Still, fourth ain't half bad at all, especially out of an applicant pool of 4,800 and a group of ten editor-selected finalists, which included Nobel Prize-winning physicist Burton Richter, former assistant secretary of commerce Darryl Jackson, and Council on Foreign Relations expert Lydia Khalil...