I don't see anything in the metadata for a clip I just switched to a CC license stating that it's a remixable work:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/EiknCVlbHAc?v=2

I would venture good faith toward YouTube: they've never allowed remixing in the past; they need to build an api for that. Since any reuse of media from YouTube has required fair use up to this point in time, there has been no need for this data to be exposed through an api--since fair use, at this time, requires circumventing some obfuscations.

I support a YouTube2Commons script as well. What I'd really hope to see is that YouTube releases original uploaded sources of cc-by for public reuse, but that seems far fetched-at first glance it looks as if YouTube is a closed off ecosystem of video production.

From: wikivideo-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikivideo-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Johan Oomen Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 12:50 PM To: Opportunities for video in the Wikimedia universe; tech help Subject: Re: [Wikivideo-l] YouTube to offer CC-BY licensing

...it seems Creative Commons is happy about how the license is implemented... https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27533

Johan @johanoomen

Op 02-06-11 19:01, Michael Dale mdale@wikimedia.org schreef: I think we should help them return to the spirit of the licence, and get some youtube2commons scripts out there ;)

I wonder if the CC licence have any provisitions for DRM or limiting piratical re-usability by the nature of the platform in which the content is delivered? It certainly seems complicated to state that a) this content can be freely reusable and b) if you try to reuse it your breaking rules.

--michael

On 06/02/2011 08:56 AM, Guerillero Wikipedia wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons

This is youtube's page on Creative Commons. I don't see anything about how to legaly extract videos. It looks like youtube is violating the spirit of the license by restricting you to their own editing platform (If you don't want to break the DMCA)

Guerillero

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com mailto:ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:

Good news for wikivideo!

http://gizmodo.com/5807650/youtubes-creative-commons-license-lets-you-remix-...

YouTube, beginning today, is supposed to start offering a CC-BY licensing option for uploaders. "Al Jazeera and C-SPAN are launch partners and have agreed to release 10,000 Creative Commons videos." This will make it quite a bit easier to find free video, and easier for other organizations and individuals to free their videos.

Cool beans!

-Sage

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