Is April fools day the best time to discuss that stuff? :p A further problem with youtube is an incompatibility with a very important element of creative commons - that you arent supposed to use restrictive technologies to stop people copying and redistributing your work. I talked about this on the list in recent months because some had forgotten that a large point of creative commons is that it is OK for people to fully redistribute your work, so long as you stick to the other terms.
Youtube dont want people to download videos from them, and watch them offline or rehost them elsewhere. Clearly there are ways round this, but thats not the central point. This issue probably makes creative commons far more incompatible with many business models that big sites want to use to get revenue from exploiting online video, far more than may seem apparent at firsst glance. Other hosting services may fall foul of this too, I havent checked, I know I looked at blip when I talked about this before, and as they include links to non-flash, easily downloadable versions of the videos, they are ok. If advertising becomes the norm in future then this issue could potentially reach breaking point. Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nothing stopping YouTubers from putting a cc license in and around their > > works. We don't NEED to have point-of-upload cc options to claim 'em. > > Do we? > > Naw. > > you are absolutely correct. > it would of course be easier if yoiutube et al helped educate people > by offering the choice in their process. But anyone could insert a > video post-roll of the CC license. > > we have a plan to have a videoblogging/CC event on April 1st. > https://superhappyvloghouse.pbwiki.com > For the SF node, we hope to make custom CC trailers to share...and > even short interviews with each other about why Creative Commons is > important. These clips could be uploaded to Youtube to spread the > word. > > Anyone else want to have a party? > https://superhappyvloghouse.pbwiki.com > > Jay > > > -- > Here I am.... > http://jaydedman.com >
