[videoblogging] Copyright and Brightcove
I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with Brightcove or any other hosting site. A Brightcove rep contacted me to say they would be pulling down one of my videos due to copyright infringement. Since I legally license or create everything I use, I knew there was a mistake. He said that Brightcove now hires a third party auditor to review user content for copyright violations and terms of service violations. Their third party auditor identified the music in my video as copyrighted material. I had 5 days to respond. I responded by sending my official license for the copyright of the song, which I paid for and the receipt for. They said they couldn't take my receipt or the copy of the license given to me when I purchased the license for the use of the song. So I had to involve the company I purchased the music from. That company went through the trouble of verifying the license to Brightcove. Then Brightcove said that's not good enough. Now I have to have the copyright holder, the person who created the music, contact them. And, that person had to use the official Brightcove paperwork, fill it out, send it in, or my video would be taken down. I don't know about any of you, but hunting down the musician, getting him/her/them to fill out an official form for you and submit it seems a bit overkill to me. I understand the copyright issue. I do. But, what other difficulties will this kind of strict auditing and process cause content creators? Next will it be my stock footage and I'll have to find the camera operator? Do you see this as the future of creating original content? Because this makes it terribly hard on the individuals or small companies. Or maybe I'm just a big whiny, baby and everyone else deals with this as a standard part of doing business? Sheila
Re: [videoblogging] Copyright and Brightcove
I think Brightcove's response to your evidence is a sign to stop using them ... If their auditor can't accept the information from the music publisher, then their audit process is flawed. Any artist with a publisher lets the publisher handle licensing, and Brightcove should know this. On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:03 pm, Sheila English wrote: I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with Brightcove or any other hosting site. A Brightcove rep contacted me to say they would be pulling down one of my videos due to copyright infringement. Since I legally license or create everything I use, I knew there was a mistake. He said that Brightcove now hires a third party auditor to review user content for copyright violations and terms of service violations. Their third party auditor identified the music in my video as copyrighted material. I had 5 days to respond. I responded by sending my official license for the copyright of the song, which I paid for and the receipt for. They said they couldn't take my receipt or the copy of the license given to me when I purchased the license for the use of the song. So I had to involve the company I purchased the music from. That company went through the trouble of verifying the license to Brightcove. Then Brightcove said that's not good enough. Now I have to have the copyright holder, the person who created the music, contact them. And, that person had to use the official Brightcove paperwork, fill it out, send it in, or my video would be taken down. I don't know about any of you, but hunting down the musician, getting him/her/them to fill out an official form for you and submit it seems a bit overkill to me. I understand the copyright issue. I do. But, what other difficulties will this kind of strict auditing and process cause content creators? Next will it be my stock footage and I'll have to find the camera operator? Do you see this as the future of creating original content? Because this makes it terribly hard on the individuals or small companies. Or maybe I'm just a big whiny, baby and everyone else deals with this as a standard part of doing business? Sheila Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.com
Re: [videoblogging] Copyright and Brightcove
Sheila - You are the best at sharing your experiences. I think this is overly extreme, and yes, very few would make it through their entire compliance process. We don't use Brightcove; this is a good reason not to. Not sure if anyone from their company is on the list; maybe they are listening? Aloha, Rox On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Brightcove's response to your evidence is a sign to stop using them ... If their auditor can't accept the information from the music publisher, then their audit process is flawed. Any artist with a publisher lets the publisher handle licensing, and Brightcove should know this. On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:03 pm, Sheila English wrote: I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with Brightcove or any other hosting site. A Brightcove rep contacted me to say they would be pulling down one of my videos due to copyright infringement. Since I legally license or create everything I use, I knew there was a mistake. He said that Brightcove now hires a third party auditor to review user content for copyright violations and terms of service violations. Their third party auditor identified the music in my video as copyrighted material. I had 5 days to respond. I responded by sending my official license for the copyright of the song, which I paid for and the receipt for. They said they couldn't take my receipt or the copy of the license given to me when I purchased the license for the use of the song. So I had to involve the company I purchased the music from. That company went through the trouble of verifying the license to Brightcove. Then Brightcove said that's not good enough. Now I have to have the copyright holder, the person who created the music, contact them. And, that person had to use the official Brightcove paperwork, fill it out, send it in, or my video would be taken down. I don't know about any of you, but hunting down the musician, getting him/her/them to fill out an official form for you and submit it seems a bit overkill to me. I understand the copyright issue. I do. But, what other difficulties will this kind of strict auditing and process cause content creators? Next will it be my stock footage and I'll have to find the camera operator? Do you see this as the future of creating original content? Because this makes it terribly hard on the individuals or small companies. Or maybe I'm just a big whiny, baby and everyone else deals with this as a standard part of doing business? Sheila Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.com -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Twitter on Windows Mobile phone?
I know this is off topic, but I figured a lot of people here might use twitter. I wanted to know if anyone with a windows mobile phone can suggest a good app for twitter on it. I've been through their FAQ on clients, but there's too many to go through. Any Suggestions? Thanks, --Nathan L. Witt
RE: [videoblogging] Twitter on Windows Mobile phone?
I know this is off topic, but I figured a lot of people here might use twitter. I wanted to know if anyone with a windows mobile phone can suggest a good app for twitter on it. I've been through their FAQ on clients, but there's too many to go through. Any Suggestions? Good app? No. If you've got unlimited text, it's easier to just turn on SMS. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and Brightcove
+1. It's not worth it to have to wonder WHETHER your next episode is going to be accepted or rejected. Find another company with similar functionality that you like and repost or move your materials there. Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheila - You are the best at sharing your experiences. I think this is overly extreme, and yes, very few would make it through their entire compliance process. We don't use Brightcove; this is a good reason not to. Not sure if anyone from their company is on the list; maybe they are listening? Aloha, Rox On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Brightcove's response to your evidence is a sign to stop using them ... If their auditor can't accept the information from the music publisher, then their audit process is flawed. Any artist with a publisher lets the publisher handle licensing, and Brightcove should know this. On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:03 pm, Sheila English wrote: I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with Brightcove or any other hosting site. A Brightcove rep contacted me to say they would be pulling down one of my videos due to copyright infringement. Since I legally license or create everything I use, I knew there was a mistake. He said that Brightcove now hires a third party auditor to review user content for copyright violations and terms of service violations. Their third party auditor identified the music in my video as copyrighted material. I had 5 days to respond. I responded by sending my official license for the copyright of the song, which I paid for and the receipt for. They said they couldn't take my receipt or the copy of the license given to me when I purchased the license for the use of the song. So I had to involve the company I purchased the music from. That company went through the trouble of verifying the license to Brightcove. Then Brightcove said that's not good enough. Now I have to have the copyright holder, the person who created the music, contact them. And, that person had to use the official Brightcove paperwork, fill it out, send it in, or my video would be taken down. I don't know about any of you, but hunting down the musician, getting him/her/them to fill out an official form for you and submit it seems a bit overkill to me. I understand the copyright issue. I do. But, what other difficulties will this kind of strict auditing and process cause content creators? Next will it be my stock footage and I'll have to find the camera operator? Do you see this as the future of creating original content? Because this makes it terribly hard on the individuals or small companies. Or maybe I'm just a big whiny, baby and everyone else deals with this as a standard part of doing business? Sheila Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.com -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and Brightcove
That's an insanely convoluted and backwards way to do business. Get out of there. Move to Blip, or rent server space from a hosting provider. With all the video hosting services out there, they should be competing for your content by making it as easy as possible for you, not making you jump through ridiculous hoops for the honor and luxury of using them. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1. It's not worth it to have to wonder WHETHER your next episode is going to be accepted or rejected. Find another company with similar functionality that you like and repost or move your materials there. Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheila - You are the best at sharing your experiences. I think this is overly extreme, and yes, very few would make it through their entire compliance process. We don't use Brightcove; this is a good reason not to. Not sure if anyone from their company is on the list; maybe they are listening? Aloha, Rox On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Brightcove's response to your evidence is a sign to stop using them ... If their auditor can't accept the information from the music publisher, then their audit process is flawed. Any artist with a publisher lets the publisher handle licensing, and Brightcove should know this. On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:03 pm, Sheila English wrote: I wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar experience with Brightcove or any other hosting site. A Brightcove rep contacted me to say they would be pulling down one of my videos due to copyright infringement. Since I legally license or create everything I use, I knew there was a mistake. He said that Brightcove now hires a third party auditor to review user content for copyright violations and terms of service violations. Their third party auditor identified the music in my video as copyrighted material. I had 5 days to respond. I responded by sending my official license for the copyright of the song, which I paid for and the receipt for. They said they couldn't take my receipt or the copy of the license given to me when I purchased the license for the use of the song. So I had to involve the company I purchased the music from. That company went through the trouble of verifying the license to Brightcove. Then Brightcove said that's not good enough. Now I have to have the copyright holder, the person who created the music, contact them. And, that person had to use the official Brightcove paperwork, fill it out, send it in, or my video would be taken down. I don't know about any of you, but hunting down the musician, getting him/her/them to fill out an official form for you and submit it seems a bit overkill to me. I understand the copyright issue. I do. But, what other difficulties will this kind of strict auditing and process cause content creators? Next will it be my stock footage and I'll have to find the camera operator? Do you see this as the future of creating original content? Because this makes it terribly hard on the individuals or small companies. Or maybe I'm just a big whiny, baby and everyone else deals with this as a standard part of doing business? Sheila Yahoo! Groups Links Brian Richardson - http://whatthecast.com - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://www.3chip.com -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Presentation on videoblogging and activism - any links/suggestions
kath, this is an amazing list! while the following list doesn't exactly articulate vlogger video advocacy, they do use a similar framework. - http://tuxedotravels.com/ - http://sustainableroute.com/ - http://www.roadtripnation.com/ - http://www.thebiggreenbus.org/ On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Beth, here's a few that might be of interest. some might not be exactly what you're after, but I hope they help! http://www.engagemedia.org - EngageMedia is a video sharing site focusing on social justice and environmental issues in South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the dominance of the mainstream media. http://www.videovolunteers.org/ - Video Volunteers - community media initiative in India that is using video to empower communities to take action around critical issues relevant to development. partnered with some NGOs. their women's videomaking skills-share projects community video magazines are really great. http://www.aliak.com/content/call-centres-video-magazines-more-india has some others similar http://www.actv.co.il/portal/eportal.asp - (English page) Israel Palestine video archive / independent internet tv http://transmission.cc/txap - Transmission Asia-Pacific - is a conference (happening now!) about video for social change http://www.aliak.com/content/tactical-media-brazil-summary-mind-map - a mind map summary of a Sarai Reader 04 article : http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/04-crisis-media/55ricardo.pdf - this lists a few organisations in Brazil using video http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/04-crisis-media http://undergrowth.org/motion_pixels - undergrowth magazine's video section of course indymedia sites have video too : http://www.indymedia.org + sub-sites in different regions/cities 2008/5/21 beth_tilston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey all, I'm doing a presentation this Saturday on 'web video and activism' and am wondering if anyone has any links or suggestions. I've already planned to talk about Ryanishungry, Vision on Tv, Qik/mobile tech, Alive in Baghdad/Swajana, Undercurrents. Any other suggestions for sites/approaches? -- http://www.aliak.com
[videoblogging] Video conversion drops audio quality
I'm suffering a drastic drop in audio quality when I convert my movies. I'm shooting onto dvd-r discs. I thought that the camera saved the audio onto an already compressed mp3 file, so I don't understand why the audio would have such a drop in quality during the video compression process. If any anybody has a suggestion for getting my audio through the conversion process more successfully I'd greatly appreciate it. We host a summer concert series that we film, and the quality of the audio is pretty critical. Thanks. Nick Friedman The Duckpond Pottery www.myspace.com/duckpondatdusk Brevard, North Carolina
[videoblogging] Re: Standard Contract template for services?
Yes that looks good. It covers all the necessary elements of a contract. You might want to have an attorney vet it for you, most won't charge you much to do so. In my case I have a quid pro quo arrangement with my attorney so it didn't cost me anything. Tony
Re: [videoblogging] Video conversion drops audio quality
DVD-R uses the same MPEG-2 audio format (MPA) that a regular DVD will use. It's similar to MP3, but not exactly the same. The first thing to check is any quality settings on the camera. Since the DVD-R produces a compressed video, you want to shoot at the highest quality (i.e. shortest record time setting) to reduce the suck you take on with the first compression in the camera. There may even be an audio quality setting that's independent of the video quality setting. Next check what you're compressing to ... what's the bitrate on the resulting file? Higher is better. If that doesn't work and you have to have the best audio quality ... 1. Switch to a DV tape camera (shoot 16-but uncompressed stereo) 2. Record audio on a separate device, like a Zoom H2 or Zoom H4, then sync the audio in editing. duckpondpotter wrote: I'm suffering a drastic drop in audio quality when I convert my movies. I'm shooting onto dvd-r discs. I thought that the camera saved the audio onto an already compressed mp3 file, so I don't understand why the audio would have such a drop in quality during the video compression process. If any anybody has a suggestion for getting my audio through the conversion process more successfully I'd greatly appreciate it. We host a summer concert series that we film, and the quality of the audio is pretty critical. Thanks. Nick Friedman The Duckpond Pottery www.myspace.com/duckpondatdusk Brevard, North Carolina -- Brian Richardson - http://siliconchef.com - http://dragoncontv.com - http://whatthecast.com - http://www.3chip.com
[videoblogging] I've made it to the finals!!!
Thanks to everyone who helped me in getting to the finals of the CA DEM video contest! I still need your help in one last round of voting so I can secure the #1 or #2 and get those kids on the TV. The process is identical as the first round: 1. GO TO http://www.cadem.org/site/c.jrLZK2PyHmF/b.4142827/?auid=3695903kntaw10788=A6D4AFBA965840B3A6762EDF100A2E6D 2. add your name and email 3. SELECT VIDEO 104 (with the little girl) 4. click SUBMIT 5. (and this is important at this stage of the game) FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR PEEPS! Thank You! Travis -- Travis Mathews videographer 415.730.2415 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.travisdmathews.com
[videoblogging] Got a Canon HF100
Just unpacked and shot an hour of test video with a Canon HF100 camera. http://www.amazon.com/Canon-HF100-Definition-Camcorder-Stabilized/dp/B00114162K/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1212027502sr=8-1 Just dropped another $50, to $650.00. I'm very happy so far. I think this is a stellar vlogging/documentary camera. Jacket pocket sized, but takes mics, headphones, and has manual everything, 24p, 30p, 60i and different sized batteries. The video assist light will actually show a face in darkness for those interviews that just will not wait for light. The onboard mic is pretty damn good, being front mounted below the lens. And there's mic levels on screen if you want for external or internal. $70 got me a 16GB card and reader. Very fast download to Mac. Waiting for a copy of FC Express to come so I can edit. The HF10 is black and has on board 16GB card, but people like the HF100 for much less money, and same basic camera. I'll post a demo tape I did, complete with beaver, turkey, and duck sightings in the wild's of New Hampshire on a pond. I'm using a monopod and it's very helpful since the cam is so small. Played off the card to an HD TV using component cables, it looks like a DVD. And the 12x zoom is really nice for nature stuff. The still photos are pretty good, say like a Canon SD 5MP. If I had to complain, I'd say the AWB is a little off sometimes and I'd rather have more video assist LEDs then a flash for stills.
[videoblogging] Amazing what one can do with a low res matchbox camera
Rambo sets out on another unearthly experience with a GoPro Hero 3 video camera. This tiny little waterproof gem is awesome. http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-day-in-paradise.html Or http://blip.tv/file/944361 Cheers Rambo No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.2/1471 - Release Date: 28/05/2008 5:33 PM
Re: [videoblogging] Twitter on Windows Mobile phone?
What good are extra apps if Twitter has sucked the big one the last week? deathfromanathaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is off topic, but I figured a lot of people here might use twitter. I wanted to know if anyone with a windows mobile phone can suggest a good app for twitter on it. I've been through their FAQ on clients, but there's too many to go through. Any Suggestions? Thanks, --Nathan L. Witt Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
