Comments on: YouTube Now Owns Your Content

By: Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:21:37 +0000

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.

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By: Sabra

Sabra — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:13:57 +0000

YouTube and Google video censors videos and comments. Does Revver?

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