It doesn't however seem that youtube have relaxed their highly
dubious terms and conditions which basically allow them to do near
anything with your work.
http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
"by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and
transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare
derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in
connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its
successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation
for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website
(and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any
media channels."
I think this is incredibly problematic for any media producer,
particularly non-profits who are often putting up sensitive materials
(human rights violations say or indigenous issues). The fact that CC
licenses are also not available is also cause for concern for those
interested in marrying their principals with how they license their
work. I don't think giving away 300 digital cameras (a drop in the
ocean for YT) really cuts it myself particularly given YT will
basically get a stack of free content they can then advertise next
too, they'll make up the cost of those cameras pretty quickly. Add to
this the fact that YT make it hard to download and remix work and
only offer low-resolution flash video and you still have a pretty
standard 'broadcast' media model.
In my opinion YT basically offer an audience, highly valuable, but
for me it's not enough. I think Plone people should be much more
interested in creating alternatives to YT that allow people to
control their content and gather money from advertising or donations
which YT doesn't currently allow (though apparently they are moving
to.) Basically that's some of the core reasons for EngageMedia/Plumi
<http:/plumi.org> which we've been working on for a while now.
If you want to read more rants along this line you can check
http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andrewl/news/freebeer/
Cheers.
Andrew
On 29/09/2007, at 4:51 AM, Alexander Limi wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:06:23 -0700, Alexander Limi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
YouTube have just opened up premium accounts to non profits too
though, there must be something in the air at google :-)
Yeah, there's a lot of great NGO activity here these days. :)
Nice, I just saw that they are giving away video cameras to the
first 300 NGOs that sign up — I wasn't aware of that:
http://www.youtube.com/nonprofits
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