David I have a polite disagreement with your statement about no one caring about this situation. This is the kind of situation that will help test the value of a CC license agreement. For me it is also the eternal balance between my life and vlogging. Sometimes I gotta make room for the analog stuff.
Most of us know that with the expansion of video distribution opportunities there will be companies who want to exploit what they see as a golden opportunity. The RSS feeds are just sitting there. They get an idea to collect the feeds and slapping ads on them. They might have even paid cash money to an adviser or someone at a conference telling them to do just that. Some of this is borne out of ignorance. Ignorance of the intended meaning of the license, or of ethical business practices or straight up greed. From the wording of the reply that I received I suspect that the owners are not in the U.S. What do we do about non-U.S. based snaggers? Now we are very fortunate that we have the assistance of Mike and Blip.TV but we need to think about how an individual like myself is going to handle this. I know this conversation is going on in multiple posts. What are the concrete things we can do to draw attention, educate or whack the fools upside their heads to come to consciousness? I'm thinking: 1. Produce an educational video to send to aggregators to help them understand the license. Could we work with Creative Commons to create and distribute such a packages? 2. Create an highly insulting video about the current ripoff practices that they run on their service. As an added bonus maybe send a link or video to potential funders/advertisers. Might not do any good, might not even be ethical but the mere thought makes me feel good. 3. For me, I have to consider switching to a traditional license. I don't want to do that - I love the idea than some of the videos are being used by non-profits for their purposes. There has got to be a license for what I am trying to do but on the other hand I don't want inappropriate ads appearing next to some of my content. One of my posts is titled "Love Prosper" about Christian Hip Hop performers. I get the willies just thinking about what kind of ads are going to latch on to that post. Not the best ideas but we gotta move from the theory to the practical. <sigh> I need chocolate. Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com http://pcclibtech.blogspot.com http://voxmedia.org/wiki/Video
