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

[Andrew Lih]

On 4/11/07, 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.

Yes, the copyright terms do not change, you simply give YouTube a
license to host and distribute your video, which is revocable if you
delete the video from YouTube. For "CC" style content that Wikinews
and Wikimedia projects generate, this should be completely compatible.
Details below.

It's important to note it's not either/or with YouTube. It could be
that Commons is the place to seed the video, but that it spreads to
other locations like YouTube, Ourmedia, Revver or other places for
user convenience.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

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