[Wikinews-l] Wikinews: Video Wikinews 2.0 produces first promo video.

[Kat Walsh]

On 4/10/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/07, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We still have to promote them, though. Does YouTube retain copyrights on the
> > videos uploaded to the website?
>
> I assume not. The BBC, for example, has an account and uploads pretty
> lengthy clips to YouTube. Perhaps Wikimedia should do the same thing?
>
> Being copyleft, our content can be reused quite freely (including
> being posted on YouTube). I simply contest using YouTube/Microsoft
> Live or any other such site which uses proprietory software as the
> *primary* distributor of our content.

Yep, agreed.

(Also, you can't download the videos from YouTube's site... really annoying.)

-Kat

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