Bill, I think that's exactly right. While there is a great deal of education that needs to occur around CC licensing, I'm not sure that's the issue at play here. Videoronk is pulling videos from all over the place - they certainly aren't all covered by CC.
And frankly, I'm a little concerned about the slipperiness of this slope. I personally value CC licenses because they take into account the openness of the web. I want people to share my videos. If I have google ads on my blog and I embed one of your videos, am I violating your CC license? Are we going to move toward locking our videos down on our own sites and using DRM to protect them? Blip can block these sites all day long and they're just going to keep popping up. I found my videos on Vidoeronk pulled in from the Revver feed. Because they're syndicating the Revver player, the Revver ads are included and I'm making money. Or at least I would if I didn't work at Revver. :) Revver's business model was built upon the understanding that videos would be increasingly syndicated on the open web. We wanted to give creators a way to benefit from that. We still have a ways to go to improve our player so that attribution and linkbacks are automatically included. But at least in this scenario, Revver users are making money for their work. Speaking for myself, I'm personally OK with my videos being on Videoronk. The ads at Videoronk aren't associated directly with my videos (at least so far). I think this example is very different than what happened with MyHeavy. MyHeavy pulled videos into their own player and attached advertising to the video - not on the page around the video. That was clearly not ok. In this scenario, I'm not so sure I think my CC license is being violated (at least the noncommercial part of it). What is missing from videoronk is attribution and linkbacks. Let's build those directly into the players. Let's attribute ourselves and provide urls directly in the videos. Let's use the tool at our disposal to get what we want instead of embarking on an endless goose chase to hunt down everyone pulling RSS feeds. We have to find ways to benefit from what happens naturally on the web instead of trying to constantly battle it. On 1/30/07, Bill Cammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected] <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Gena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > Can you expand on that? What kind of license are you going to get > that would make any difference to someone aggregating RSS feeds? > > It's not "Creative Commons" that's being disrespected. They're > ignoring everything except the fact that you made a video and they can > subscribe to your feed. > > Do you think they actually _watch_ the videos they aggregate to see if > there's a licensing block at the end? Do you think, especially given > the response you received in this case, that they would bother to > remove each particular individual feed whose license they were > disregarding? CC or Traditional? > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "switching to a > traditional license". > > -- > Bill C. > http://ReelSolid.TV > > > -- www.mickipedia.com www.worldchanging.com http://blog.revver.com NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse or protection from this unwarranted intrusion save to call for the impeachment of the current President. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
