We at Wikinews would like board members to quickly give their response to a new YouTube project for non-profits.
Broadcast Your Cause http://youtube.com/nonprofits
Our Wikinews Video project http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Video_2.0 would benefit highly from something like this. And the good part is it will cost the foundation or Wikinews nothing, and the first 300 agencies to sign up get a free video camera.
What else is included? Your Nonprofit channel (aka Wikinews) includes:
* Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity * Rotation of your videos in the "Promoted Videos" areas throughout the site * The option to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout "Donate" button
I guess I am asking, do we need permission to sign up?
Jason Safoutin
We at Wikinews would like board members to quickly give their response to a new YouTube project for non-profits. Broadcast Your Cause http://youtube.com/nonprofits Jason Safoutin
Does YouTube's terms of use 12. "18 years of age" and 6.C. "grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of" http://youtube.com/t/terms work with Wikinews' CC BY 2.5 license?
Can't they "reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of" a CC-BY 2.5 work either way?
Jeandré du Toit wrote:
We at Wikinews would like board members to quickly give their response to a new YouTube project for non-profits. Broadcast Your Cause http://youtube.com/nonprofits Jason Safoutin
Does YouTube's terms of use 12. "18 years of age" and 6.C. "grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of" http://youtube.com/t/terms work with Wikinews' CC BY 2.5 license?
On 9/30/07, Jason Safoutin jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Broadcast Your Cause http://youtube.com/nonprofits
This seems like something WMF may want to sign up for in order to broadcast its own fundraising messages. For Wikinews video efforts, I could not support it without legal blessings from Mike. (Again, this may show the benefits of having a separate Wikinews-related non-profit.)
In general, please contact Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia dot org> and Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia dot org> as a first step in such matters; they will escalate to the Board if necessary. There is no such thing as a quick Board decision.
On 9/30/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9/30/07, Jason Safoutin jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Broadcast Your Cause http://youtube.com/nonprofits
This seems like something WMF may want to sign up for in order to broadcast its own fundraising messages. For Wikinews video efforts, I could not support it without legal blessings from Mike. (Again, this may show the benefits of having a separate Wikinews-related non-profit.)
In general, please contact Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia dot org> and Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia dot org> as a first step in such matters; they will escalate to the Board if necessary. There is no such thing as a quick Board decision.
-- Toward Peace, Love & Progress: Erik
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Perhaps the best setup might be an umbrella channel for all the Wikimedia Foundation. It could have Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other projects' videos on it as well as Wikinews (who might find it the most useful). However, I see no need for a seperate nonprofit organization for an individual project, as that could potentially create all sorts of confusion. ~~~~
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