On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:15 PM, FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you folks think? Hey that's really good! > * **Exercise your fair use rights -** If you don't use it, you lose > it! When you need to quote something or reference something, do it, > don't be scared. Just follow the Center for Social Media's "[Code of > Best Practices in Fair use for Online Video][2]". It might be worth stating that DRM of any kind makes Fair Use rights (potentially) unusable. > * **Open content licenses -** Make it obviously legal to share, cut up > and remix your content. Use a [Creative Commons][3] license that allows > for remixing. (All current CC licenses allow for sharing, at least for > noncommercial purposes.) For added points they could use only Freedom Defined licenses. This has practical value for hosts as it would avoid any problems with showing ads next to NC derivatives or people uploading derivatives of ND works. > * **Offer a downloadable format -** Sometimes people want to access > video while not connected to the Internet. Offering a download link lets > people with slow connections watch your high resolution video through > the power of delayed gratification. Also, letting people download your > stuff aids distributed preservation. And make sure the button is right next to the locked-down flash player and can easily be seen. ;-) Encouraging downloads encourages remixing which encourages uploads which encourages site usage. It's the virtuous circle of Web 2.0, creating a value spiral that can be monetized each time around with e.g. advertising or paid services. > * **Provide good metadata -** Tags and other descriptors can make it > easier for people to find your video. Thumbnails can make it easier to > skim through your content (automatically provided by Internet Archive). > Categorize! Annotate! It may be worth making it explicit that these are user-generated features and that there should be a clear user policy regarding them (and an API for them). > * **Provide feeds and other ways to subscribe to your content -** If > people like what you have, make it easy for them to get further updates. Again, this is part of the freedom of the APIs for the site. So it may be worth tying this explicitly to Free Data. http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd?action=show&redirect=osd http://autonomo.us/ - Rob. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
