The costs of production for film-making, (in terms of stock/processing/editing anyway), have fallen dramatically – and now there are myriad ways for the image maker to distribute their work online, (ahh – but marketing – there’s the rub!).
Anyhew, what rights do you give away when you upload to services like YouTube and Vimeo? Advancing Usability has a nice roundup of the policies of the major user-generated-content video distribution services here:
Interesting.
I didn't read all of the terms of service agreements in the post, but I would make no assumptions to any rights if I were to submit a video of my creation to one of these services.
I did read YouTube, which I use, and had no problem with any of their terms. They are providing a free service and a platform for which to post and make available to the public. Free. If anyone knows anything about the internet, you are foolish to think that anything put in that domain could not be compromised anyway, but I think it's more than fair to say “if you're going to use our FREE service, we have some rights about the useage of your material, too”.
Interesting.
I didn't read all of the terms of service agreements in the post, but I would make no assumptions to any rights if I were to submit a video of my creation to one of these services.
I did read YouTube, which I use, and had no problem with any of their terms. They are providing a free service and a platform for which to post and make available to the public. Free. If anyone knows anything about the internet, you are foolish to think that anything put in that domain could not be compromised anyway, but I think it's more than fair to say “if you're going to use our FREE service, we have some rights about the useage of your material, too”.