YouTube Now Owns Your Content
The golden age of YouTube is over. The popular video sharing service just modified their terms and now many YouTube users are contemplating switching to competition sites like REVVER.
According to their new terms, anything you upload to YouTube becomes the property of YouTube. This means they can now do anything from sell your videos (Best of YouTube; DVD Vol. 1) to use them in commercials and advertising.
Here’s a scary excerpt from the new YouTube terms:
“…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… in any media formats and through any media channels.”
The little bit about “YouTube and its successor’s” means that anyone who buys YouTube will inherit the content as well. YouTube is currently estimated to be worth $1 Billion dollars. Our sister blog, e-Fuze, suggests you “think twice” before you upload something important to YouTube and always read the fine print.
If you want a website that is kind enough to actually let you own your own videos, check out Revver. They have the same video hosting features as YouTube and they will also give you 20% of any ad revenue made from your videos on their site. When people click and watch, you get paid.
Screw you YouTube. It’s time to download your videos from YouTube and upload them to Revver.
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October 23rd, 2009 10:21
I’m not sure I agree with the author of this article. The author dropped an important sentence. For example, what comes before the ‘…by submitting’ is important, as well as a few things in the rest of the entire paragraph. Here is the complete paragraph:
‘For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting 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 successors’ and affiliates’) 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, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in User Videos terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User Videos from the YouTube Website. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Submissions that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in User Comments are perpetual and irrevocable.’
The author’s interpretation of Google’s YouTube Terms of Agreement seems a little misleading. For example, the author asserts, ‘Anything you upload to YouTube becomes the property of YouTube.’ but Google clearly states the user retains ownership. What Google is trying to say is that you are allowing them to not have to pay you to put it online. For users to not have to pay you to watch it. And that as soon as you remove your content, the ‘license’ you are extending them terminates after a reasonable period. That’s all.
Copyright law is a real b**** to understand, but there are several good sources out there to help, if one really had the time to kill. Once understood, it isn’t quite that scary.
Hope this helps people a little.
September 19th, 2007 21:07
New Funny Commercials
Download The Commercials From Here
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March 7th, 2007 13:13
YouTube and Google video censors videos and comments. Does Revver?
October 15th, 2006 09:17
Download YouTube Video Downloader it is wonderful to download movies from YouTube
http://rapidshare.de/files/36145570/YouTube_Video_Downloader.rar