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| | The ABHP - A Bit of Humble Pie Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | unauthorized video postings | Views: 959 | | Jul 07, 2010 9:22 pm | | unauthorized video postings | # | 
Ron Sam | | I posted some videos of a Maritime Museum tour on Youtube.
While searching for something related to the museum I find my videos on a foreign site, I believe it was in South America and in Spanish.
There were no attributions on the videos or their source links, just a warning for others to not copy without permissions (Or something to that effects since I had to translate the verbiage).
There is no monetary lost as far as I can see.
Who regulates this sort of usurpation? The site's hosting company?
What other issues might be related to unauthorized usage of videos?Private Reply to Ron Sam | | Jul 07, 2010 10:59 pm | | re: unauthorized video postings | # | 
Reg Charie | | If you can prove the originals are yours you can send a Cease & Desist warning to the website owner and tell him you either want credit or to remove the property.
If you are feeling nasty, send a copy to the website's hosting company.
If you do the latter it can result in the host removing the website, which is why I say "If you are feeling nasty."
RegPrivate Reply to Reg Charie | | Jul 09, 2010 7:42 am | | re: re: unauthorized video postings | # |
Ron Sam | | Thanks Reg! Private Reply to Ron Sam | | Jul 14, 2010 2:22 pm | | The skinny on YouTube video rights/usage--it's not what you think | # | 
Bobbi Jo Woods | | I had to look this up, because I had a client ask about the same thing.
Here's the deal... you don't have any leverage for a course of action other than to sit there and take it, if someone shares your video on another website (provided it's through YouTube's branded copy as viewed through their flash embed player/viewer and not a downloaded copy presented in some other player or format without the YouTube branding and/or presenting your content as their own).
Once you post a video to YouTube, you pretty much grant YouTube carte blanche to do with it what they wish, including all of its users being able to embed and/or share the video as they see fit ("users" being anyone using the site, not just accountholders, even casual viewers/gawkers). You grant usage rights to all those who use YouTube as well. Anyone posting or embedding your video is NOT required by law to take down your video, or even give credit to you.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdcK6r7yk9Q
The items below are paraphrased from:
YouTube terms of service (section 6)
http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
"... you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube ... transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service in any media formats and through any media channels.
You also hereby grant EACH USER [of YouTube] a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service ... and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service."
Bobbi Jo Woods, Owner, B. Woods Design
Professional Websites for Small Business
877-996-9932 Toll-free
http://www.bwoodsdesign.comPrivate Reply to Bobbi Jo Woods | | Jul 14, 2010 2:38 pm | | re: The skinny on YouTube video rights/usage--it's not what you think | # |
Bobbi Jo Woods | | On the other hand, YouTube video posters *do* have some power. They could remove the content from YouTube.com, which would prevent anyone from using it, period ;)
If you really want to limit your video's usage, you could format the original video into a streaming web format that is not on YouTube (or any other online video sharing service), but is instead hosted at your own web server or host, and then it would become solely your property and anyone displaying it would be violating your copyright. By this, I mean, using something like Windows Movie Maker or Camtasia Studio or similar and not uploading it to YouTube/other service, but rather publishing the resulting HTML file (web page) and associated media files (usually .wmv or .swf) to your site's hosting file manager and streaming it from a page on your own site.
Pros:
By doing the above, your non-YouTube created video is then completely your own property and copyrighted material, and you can forcibly ask for cease/desist if anyone posts/embeds it without your permission or credit to you.
Cons:
By doing the above, you really restrict your audience to the select people who view your site, and you won't benefit from the built-in {and much broader) audience that YouTube.com provides. With the benefit of YouTube's added built-in exposure, unfortunately, comes the sacrifice of not wholly being in control of your content's placement.
Bobbi Jo Woods, Owner, B. Woods Design
Professional Websites for Small Business
877-996-9932 Toll-free
http://www.bwoodsdesign.comPrivate Reply to Bobbi Jo Woods | | Sep 14, 2010 5:55 am | | re: re: The skinny on YouTube video rights/usage--it's not what you think | # |
Ron Sam | | Thanks Bobbi for the very detailed answer.
Would embedding a watermark in the video before uploading to YouTube be of any help in keeping people from downloading it and re-posting it on their own site?
RonPrivate Reply to Ron Sam | | Sep 14, 2010 6:37 am | | re: re: re: The skinny on YouTube video rights/usage--it's not what you think | # |
Bobbi Jo Woods | | Hi Ron
Unfortunately, no.
It's not just downloading, either. It's that when you use YouTube, it's meant to be for sharing videos. So by uploading a video to the YouTube site, you're actually saying it's OK for others to share it/embed it on their own site, page, blog or Facebook page, or what have you.
Bobbi Jo Woods, Owner, B. Woods Design
Professional Websites for Small Business
651-998-9125
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