Thread: New YouTube Licensing Options

So, posting a video tonight and saw we have two options now for licensing when publishing a video:
Option 1 - Standard You Tube TOS
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Option 2 - Creative Commons License
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

What do you think is the best one to use for building??
Cheers,
James

Lately I have been embedding YT videos into blogs, so I hope that the embed function takes the licensing into account before offering the embed code, and doesn't say you are not permitted to view this video etc. when somebody tries to view it on my blog.

So taking this scenario into account may influence which licensing option you go for.

CC licensing may be too much hassle for re-publishers to handle maybe?

There could be a big problem with one line in the Creative Commons license: "By marking your original video with a Creative Commons license, you are granting the entire YouTube community the right to reuse and edit that video." You would only want to use this option if you don't care about someone taking your work and altering it.

I will use the Standard License the next time I upload a video.

On the flip side, if you're embedding the videos of others does the creative commons license provide you better protection against being sued by others for copyright infringements that you may not be aware of in the videos (thinking music or theme songs mostly bundled with other content here...).

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Originally Posted by Andy101

Lately I have been embedding YT videos into blogs, so I hope that the embed function takes the licensing into account before offering the embed code, and doesn't say you are not permitted to view this video etc. when somebody tries to view it on my blog.

So taking this scenario into account may influence which licensing option you go for.

CC licensing may be too much hassle for re-publishers to handle maybe?

I don't think the embed function is this smart though....

Originally Posted by javanx3d

On the flip side, if you're embedding the videos of others does the creative commons license provide you better protection against being sued by others for copyright infringements that you may not be aware of in the videos (thinking music or theme songs mostly bundled with other content here...).

I don't think so. Fair use probably remains the best protection for that, other than creating your own material or using other available CC or public domain material. From what I understand Creative Commons is just a convenient way to say "you can share and modify this" either out of good will or hope that this will make your work more attractive to others. There are also multiple CC licenses, some of which restrict making derivates and all commercial use.

CC licensing was borne out of the Free Culture movement, mostly led by Lawrence Lessig who argues a lot against the current draconian copyright regimes and wants to see it reformed. He's also on the board of the Free Software Foundation. CreativeCommons.org has more info.

So a good listing / resource to provide if you know of one or find one in your travels is a lawyer vetted generally approved usage listing for each of the licenses!
I have learned that multiple non-lawyers arguing legalease does not make for good legal protection
I'll have to ask my bud at work (lawyer but doesn't do Intellectual Property/online stuff) if he has any coworkers willing to give an unofficial opinion for bevvies or something.

Originally Posted by javanx3d

I have learned that multiple non-lawyers arguing legalease does not make for good legal protection
I'll have to ask my bud at work (lawyer but doesn't do Intellectual Property/online stuff) if he has any coworkers willing to give an unofficial opinion for bevvies or something.

True, though Lawrence Lessig is a lawyer.

Interesting info from the YouTube blog on how they give you credit for allowing videos to be used by others in the YouTube editor:
YouTube Blog: YouTube and Creative Commons: raising the bar on user creativity

So you get more links to your YouTube videos to give up the CC permissions using the new video editing features built into the site.

For lawyers speaking about direct application of the various licenses, believe you need a lawyers interpretation of the applicability of the 2 licenses. Plenty of material on CC out there, just not in the context of YouTube video embedding on third party sites under this license from YouTube.