Hawfinch

Some ballet organisations do indeed seem to appreciate YouTube as a promotional tool and as a means of disseminating a choreographer's work. Others seems to resent it for the same reason. Was there any Balanchine on mydiorella's channel? The Trust eats YouTube channels for breakfast. link

Many of my DVD purchases have been made after viewing samples on YouTube. Similarly, if I'm booking tickets for a company I'm unfamiliar with, I'll look up clips to find out which dancers I should try to see. I recently spent about twice as much as I planned on tickets for the Bolshoi visit to London as a direct result of watching some amazing clips on lexxrussia's channel. I can't suggest any legal or moral justification for allowing copyright stuff on YT; just the pragmatic one that it may not be hurting the copyright holders as much as they think.