Gadget Of The Week: Muziic

15-year-old David Nelson here has created a free music service out of nothing YouTube, taking online classes instead of attending school to devote time to Muziic, a site and smooth piece of software that skins an iTunes-ish interface on top of YouTube, making available any song that's been uploaded to YouTube as a video.

Meanwhile, UMG and the other big recording companies all have similar ideas in the works, but since none of them are a 15-year-old boy they're nowhere near done yet. Mr. Nelson, on the other hand, has managed to do it all without YouTube noticing.

But now that the cat is out of the bag, YouTube/Google is not likely to let sleeping geniuses lie, according to their first statement on the matter:

"This is the first we've become aware of the site," a YouTube spokesman told CNET on Saturday night. "We're looking into it now. On a preliminary review, however, it appears that the site violates our API terms of use."

While the Nelson family maintains that they reached out to YouTube but never heard back, they have taken steps not to violate the API - such as adding a tiny video player to the UI to satisfy the requirement that videos play in any application - while keeping Musiic true to its mission.

Whether Muziic will go the way of MySpace Music or the way of Napster is uncertain, but for one week at least, David's our hero.

EDIT: The link and name have been corrected. Thanks to all our readers who pointed out the error!