LucasGonze said: > The problem is that videobloggers are going down the same hopelessly > unrealistic and ultimately disastrous path as the record labels and > movie companies. What's driving you is the same misplaced sense of > victimization and and righteous anger. > Creators don't have sacrosanct rights in the US (except with regard to > attribution). That's not just a little wrong, it's wrong in a way > which is important. If creators were to be granted sacrosanct rights > it would be a massive expansion of copyright at the expense of the > public. > And not just at the expense of the public, but also at the expense of > creators. The 500,000 YouTubers who you want to prevent from mashing > up your video have just as much right to make art as you do. If > what's at stake is the loss of 500,000 artworks, why does your work > trump theirs?
I agree that we can always tone down the outrage and drama when discussing these aggregator sites that grab our videos...but let's not lose sight of the real subject here. CreativeCommons.org is this just a noble experiment? or is CC a real tool that can help make the web a healthy place. Lucas, all I ask of MyHeavy.com, Magnify.net or any other site is that they respect the CC license I have on my video. If they are pulling in the Blip.tv feed....they can very well read the license in the feed. Most videos I have are CC-Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/). Its very clear that anyone can put this on their site, remix, even use commerically. but they must link back to me. period. If I have an attribution-noncommerical license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), then any site should respect this accordingly and not put ads around my video. None of this is difficult to understand. the question is...will these aggregators sites respect or not. Lucas, I know you did a lot of work for CCmixter.org. its an awesome place where people can put up music for sharing. To use any of these songs, all most artists require is attribution. But if I make a site, list of these songs and act like I wrote them....what kind of ecology are we creating? Instead of people wanting to share their work, it'll just make people feel ripped off. the only issue I have with Youtube.com and other similar sites is that they do not allow creators to put a CC license on point of upload. They help break the ecology. Nothing is clear. Confusion is ripe. A lawyers dream. So Lucas, I am not crying. i want anyone to link to my videos, just give me a linkback. Its so easy to do technically. The difficulty here is sorting out people's motives and awareness. If a funded company is building a business by grabbing content without attribution, its simply ignorance, maliciousness, or laziness. I would love for the Videoblogging Group to at least be able to educate so we eradicate the Ignorance. Then its up to each site to choose where they stand with the community. is Creative Commons a noble experiment, or is it a real tool to help create a healthy online ecology? jay -- Here I am.... http://jaydedman.com
