Participatory Culture Foundation

Today I noticed that some YouTube-based Amara pages are now titled by the URL - instead of by the YT title - of the video they stream - just as normally happens by default when you create an Amara page from the URL of an .mp4 file [1].

Examples:

1. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/zaMTx2X5luiH/info, made from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ is titled "www.youtube.com/.../watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ" instead of "Miko Peled Seattle. Oct. 1, 2012", like its source YT video.
2. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/oBIQJLutyPTW/info, made from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5msu-dap8, is titled "www.youtube.com/.../watch?v=OT5msu-dap8", instead of "Backstreet Boys - Shape Of My Heart", like its source YT video
3. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/fTFAWBzHwoas/info, made from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFBG4dvSSo, is titled "www.youtube.com/.../watch?v=EkFBG4dvSSo". instead of  "RNC Sham 2012 Corruption Beyond Belief", like its source YT video.

 

Why does that now happen to YT-based Amara pages - and why does it happen to some of them, but not to other ones?

 

 

[1] Actually, there is a difference with Amara pages made from URLs of mp4 files, where that file URL title obtains everywhere, also in teams' video lists. With the YT-base pages above, their YT title does appear correctly e.g. the list of a team's video.

I.e. example 2. is correctly listed as RNC Sham 2012 Corruption Beyond Belief in the Captions Requested videos, and example 3. is correctly listed as Backstreet Boys - Shape Of My Heart in the Music Captioning videos.

Update: the Amara video pages I mentioned earlier are now appearing with the same title as the YT video they stream, normally.