Man, I just discovered youtube.com and what a great site it is. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s just ordinary people’s videos online and some of them are fantastic. Check out the top videos:
It’s not all ordinary people’s videos. It’s videos of rock bands and clips of movie scenes, too. Such as ultracheesy Hong Kong kung fu flicks. This one is hilarious.
I think that Google video is quite good as well. Search ‘Super man team’ It’s totally hilarious! (but it only has chinese subtitle)
That ‘Pokemon Theme Music Video’ is such a big sacrifice, which suddenly reminds me that Chinese backstreet boy (or so-called Back Dormitory Boys) have got contract with Pepsi in China and will be filmed with Yao Ming. I was shocked…
[quote]The video site YouTube constitutes an equal or larger threat to small content producers. Before you upload that video of your 19-person indie rocker reggae band, for instance, you may want to read the fine print. YouTube’s “new” Terms & Conditions allow them to sell whatever you uploaded however they want:
“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.”
Among other things, this means they could strip the audio portion of any track and sell it on a CD. Or, they could sell your video to an ad firm looking to get “edgy”; suddenly your indie reggae tune could be the soundtrack to a new ad for SUVs. The sky’s still the limit, when it comes to the rights you surrender to YouTube when you upload your video.[/quote]
[quote]The video site YouTube constitutes an equal or larger threat to small content producers. Before you upload that video of your 19-person indie rocker reggae band, for instance, you may want to read the fine print. YouTube’s “new” Terms & Conditions allow them to sell whatever you uploaded however they want:
“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.”
Among other things, this means they could strip the audio portion of any track and sell it on a CD. Or, they could sell your video to an ad firm looking to get “edgy”; suddenly your indie reggae tune could be the soundtrack to a new ad for SUVs. The sky’s still the limit, when it comes to the rights you surrender to YouTube when you upload your video.[/quote][/quote]
While reading up on Youtube this morning I came across this site: revver.com/
[quote]General
What’s Revver?
Revver connects creators, viewers, and advertisers in a sponsorship marketplace for online video, taking full advantage of the open flow of information on the Internet, rather than trying to fight it. Revver provides all the tools you need to distribute your original work online and earn money. Revver strives to support free and accessible videos online and still reward creators.
Licenses
Why is Creative Commons the default license on Revver?
The Creative Commons share-alike license simply says that you are allowing people to share your work. This is vital to the Revver system because the more people watch your video, the more money you earn. To learn more about Creative Commons take a look at their website.
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Here’s one from that site. It’s a Sex in the City style show with some Chinese flava. It’s pretty good. It’s always fun watching foreigners speak Chinese (and Chinese speak foreign.)
[quote]The video site YouTube constitutes an equal or larger threat to small content producers. Before you upload that video of your 19-person indie rocker reggae band, for instance, you may want to read the fine print. YouTube’s “new” Terms & Conditions allow them to sell whatever you uploaded however they want:
“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.”
Among other things, this means they could strip the audio portion of any track and sell it on a CD. Or, they could sell your video to an ad firm looking to get “edgy”; suddenly your indie reggae tune could be the soundtrack to a new ad for SUVs. The sky’s still the limit, when it comes to the rights you surrender to YouTube when you upload your video.[/quote][/quote]
While reading up on Youtube this morning I came across this site: revver.com/
[quote]General
What’s Revver?
Revver connects creators, viewers, and advertisers in a sponsorship marketplace for online video, taking full advantage of the open flow of information on the Internet, rather than trying to fight it. Revver provides all the tools you need to distribute your original work online and earn money. Revver strives to support free and accessible videos online and still reward creators.
Licenses
Why is Creative Commons the default license on Revver?
The Creative Commons share-alike license simply says that you are allowing people to share your work. This is vital to the Revver system because the more people watch your video, the more money you earn. To learn more about Creative Commons take a look at their website.
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I might start posting my videos here.[/quote]
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. You are right, the Creative Commons License would be a more fair license to submit my videos too. Did you get Revver to work on Linux, they seem to use QuickTime as a default movie format. I am not aware of a Quicktime plugin for Firefox on Linux
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