[videoblogging] re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-14 Thread JD Lasica
Josh, nice spending time with ya this week, but when you write: let's cut the guy a break. He's listening and interacting here. That's the first step. Legaleze like Terms Of Service agreements are hard to write. Nobody knows what to do here, and paying lawyers to do this gets expensive... and the

Re: [videoblogging] re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-14 Thread Joshua Kinberg
All I'm saying is let's give them the opportunity to make adjustments now that the issue has been brought up. Its probably not something the service owners thought much about. Its likely they simply copied it from somewhere else. Rather than continue to jump on them here, let's give them the

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
Hey Guys, Sorry for the super long post... I am with YouAreTV, and I wanted to give you a brief on what we are doing. We actually want to be very different than youtube and google video. When we first started we wanted to be like all of the companies out there, but we realized that all of the

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Welcome, Well this is the problem. Some people wont be happy with that. Whilst they remain they owner of the footage, they give you pretty much the rights to do whatever you like with that video once they publish it using your service. If you got a deal on TV in future, you could show all the

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
Steve, Thanks for the input. We'll certainly take a look at our terms. However, this idea of rights for specific channel and don't touch my content characteristics of old media companies, and explains why they attempt the lock distribution channels, google had to develop their own DRM scheme,

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
We are neither producers or lawyers. All we want to do is help users get their video out there. That is our mission. This is the first time EVER in history that individuals have had the reach through video that they have had. Imagine someone reporting from india when the earthquakes happen, or

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew Baron
I didn't read the terms, but however philanthropic it may be, asking people to sign away perpetual rights to their content, especially without even having a conversation, is about as extreme as it gets in terms of taking advantage and it certainly feels gross to even think about. Is that

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
I really do hate to get into this over a message board. But the terms basically say: 1. You have rights to whatever you upload. 2. You will always have those rigthts. 3. The stuff you upload you give YouAreTV NON-EXCLUSIVE rights to distribute that content. With Current TV and other sites

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Ted Tagami
I didnt read the agreement in its entirety, but in the bottom half of 'graph 5B the agreement reads: For clarity, you shall retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting the User Submissions to YouAre.TV, you hereby grant YouAre.TV a worldwide,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:31:53 +0100, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't read the terms, but however philanthropic it may be, asking people to sign away perpetual rights to their content, especially without even having a conversation, is about as extreme as it gets in terms

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew Baron
Perhaps I have misunderstood though it seems you have avoided my question: 1. Do you, youare.tv, get perpetual rights to the material? Yes? The reason why this is so terrible for the content creator can be illustrated by the following example: This xmas season, a guy made a video of his

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
Ted, Right now we don't make any revenue from you videos. This clause helps us to avoid any user from coming back and sue us saying HEY YOU OWE ME $XXX. We are taking our terms down temporarily, and will have counsel edit them to clarify that the model will change once we allow users to share in

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
Andrew, I am not legal, but in this case please keep in mind all we have are the rights to distribute and edit that content. We don't own the content itself. Under our agreement he still would have been able to sell it to the beer company. Basically he sold the rights to the Beer company to

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew Baron
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, esteban_k2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This clause helps us to avoid any user from coming back and sue us saying HEY YOU OWE ME $XXX. This is just my personal opinion - my personal interpretation: I don't believe you. Yahoo! Groups Links * To

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread esteban_k2
Andrew, I am not legal, but in this case please keep in mind all we have are the rights to distribute and edit that content. We don't own the content itself. Under our agreement he still would have been able to sell it to the beer company. Basically he sold the rights to the Beer company to

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Well it can be difficult to find the right balance with such terms conditions. Yours isnt he only service thats been talked about here for having 'perpetual' and other things in the tc. I mean you have to make the users grant you some rights or you wouldnt have the right to distribute their

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Ted Tagami
David - Your project looks promising. Any service that can raise the signal-to-noise ratio is welcome in that it is harder and harder to see everything that is out there. I agree with you that the medium has changed and the indepenent voice can carry much farther than in the past, howecer we

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Knight
Thankfully you have graced us with your presence, now check out the wonderful vid pjkproductions has posted. http://55broad.video.blip.tv/Pjkproductions-PaulsDream988.mp4 paul knight On 13 Jan 2006, at 22:22, Andrew Baron wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, esteban_k2 [EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Jay dedman
We are adding user page perma links, video page perma links, and individual page permalinks. We are also looking at adding rss feeds based on keyowrds, favorites and videos. Our goal is to allow you to Get your video out there. And when people are on YouAreTV, we want to enable you to create

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Loiez D.
Hi Esteban, Where do you saw riots in France ? I am trying your website and i'll send my opinion to all the french vloggers At first i think you have a good concept Keep rockin' it's goog for all vloggers Loiez http://www.loiez.org Le 13 janv. 06 à 22:10, esteban_k2 a écrit : Imagine

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew Baron
graced us? I can see the eye a' rollin all over the place on that one. But thanks for the nice words. And I really did like the video, very creative. If you are going to ask someone to listen to your dreams, you might as well show them right? As an aside, up until a few weeks ago, I've kept

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Stephanie Bryant
On 1/13/06, Ted Tagami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After hearing feedback from some of us, I commend you for taking your ToS under review, and will continue to watch your site develop. I'm with Ted on this one. I'm no fan of all-rights TOS's, but I'm glad you're engaging in the dialog and

[videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Gena
You think it, nurse it, produce it and, if you so choose to, upload to this services you lose all of your rights to your creation?"YouAre.TV a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free,irrevocable, perpetual, sublicenseable and transferable license touse, reproduce, distribute,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Okay all... this is great feedback, but seriously let's cut the guy a break. He's listening and interacting here. That's the first step. Legaleze like Terms Of Service agreements are hard to write. Nobody knows what to do here, and paying lawyers to do this gets expensive... and the lawyers can

Re: [videoblogging] Re: http://youare.tv/

2006-01-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
i agree. On 1/13/06, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay all... this is great feedback, but seriously let's cut the guy a break.He's listening and interacting here. That's the first step.Legaleze like Terms Of Service agreements are hard to write. Nobodyknows what to do here, and