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Friday, January 26, 2007

YouTube gets it all.

A month ago, I was told to publish some of my jokes in youtube. I question this strategy based upon others copying my material. My concerns were valid. When you upload video to youtube, you release them a license that lets them do what they please with it. They can sell it, remix it, publish it, without informing you.

"For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service. The foregoing license granted by you terminates once you remove or delete a User Submission from the YouTube Website."

This info was obtain from an Openvision.tv/blog/.

So, think twice before giving up all your talent and material for free.