Have you tried raising these issues with them, especially now that they
are trying to court NGOs? I'm sure they are willing to listen.
If you don't get any sensible answers, I'm happy to help with locating the
right people (and take it to Larry and Sergey if necessary). I agree that
these are serious issues.
— Alexander
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:05:18 -0700, and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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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