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Is it possible that KYM can get its own ability to stream videos, because its really frustrating to see important videos in articles be deleted by absurd DMCA notices. Anybody can file a DMCA notice, its really getting silly.

Here is the Youtube's DMCA policy.

All you need is a electronic signature to file a DMCA.

http://www.isaacbowman.com/electronic-signatures-in-global-and-national-commerce-act-esign

I actually had a video taken down on my first article. I understand why it happened, but it was annoying.

My guess is that KYM would be bound by the same restraints as YouTube. If they investigated each copyright claim to see if it was legitimate, then that might be even more of a strain on a much smaller staff here than what YouTube has.
 
But I don't know for sure. Maybe they have something in the works.

We only need the videos in the articles for documentation(which falls under fair use if I'm correct), the video gallery can still be youtube based.

There are more problems with videos being taken off by their creators then copyright violation.
But then again, we don't want to overstretch the site. Maybe the video hosting could only be for videos in confirmed articles (not the video gallery, mind you, the actual article) to avoid having the server pay the price for those submissions (of which there are quite a few) which seems to be just 6 videos on the page "describing" the entry.

One problem with rehosting content is that it doesn't belong to us.

A lot of youtubers use partnerships and other such deals to earn revenue from ads played before and after their videos, but if we host it ourselves, we are effectively stealing money from those users.

That is true, but doesn't fair use allow us to show criticism/educational purposes for something?

There has got to be a way for this to work.

How would a news corporation use a internet video and not have a problem?

The news have special abilities. They don't need to consult anyone. But say if a certain channel is streaming a tennis match per say, another channel wouldn't be allowed to stream the very game, because the other channel has paid to stream the game. That is pretty much the only exception.