Hello Jen,
I'm going to ask the following, not because I'm trying to be difficult, but because I think it needs to be asked....
What if the way I'm linking to someone else's video is by putting it in an HTML <embed> or <object> element so that the video play in my webpage instead of the original author's webpage.
Is that still OK?
(Note, by asking that I'm not trying to imply that I don't think that is OK. I'm just wasn't sure if you considered that when you said what you said.)
See ya
That's a good question. The embedding will make it seem like the content is on the secondary site (and perhaps made by that blog's owner), since most people don't understand how websites are built. But still.... I think I feel the same way. Link away ...
This just proposes another reason to be sure to credit yourself / your site / your project / the appropriate people in the video, rather than expecting the viewers will see the blog post that goes with the video.
For me personally, I think I would be fine if someone posts my video into their site... then again, I'm expecting that people will off-load work and host it on theirs. I've got a film (http://www.bushforpeace.us) that's being distributed on several websites (with permission / contracts) -- and then one of those parties uploaded it to Google video, and meanwhile I've seen it on bittorrent... When we put the video online three years ago, we wanted it to go viral + hoped it would circulate widely. I wish all the views were on my website, just so I could get realistic stats about how popular it is / when interest peaks and wanes and peaks again / who's watching it... etc. But, a las. The internet just doesn't work that way.
I was a bit freaked out when I saw a copy on Google video -- but hey -- I didn't make that film so I could get "credit" and website traffic! (What would I be getting from the webstats really anyway?) I made the film to be seen, and seen as widely as possible. It's probably better for my ego-based-hunger for praise to simply have no idea how many people see it (or not). It has its own life and wanders the net without me. People see it or not... It's like a child who's over 21 and doesn't call home much. And I'm very very glad it's traveling the globe...
I know that's not quite what you are asking.
But I think it is important to remember why we make work and what are deepist wishes are for it -- even as we get pulled into all the talk about what's legal and how we might make money...
jen
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