After reading Cringley’s article this week, I finally decided to remove my videos from YouTube. Sure I’ll watch videos on there, but no more content will be submitted by me.
“Here are the exact words of the new YouTube license:
“…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.”
The internet is huge why do big companies need to horde our content that we create. If you have a connection to the internet you should be able to share with the internet, via bittorrent and or an HTTP server. Publishing a feed of your content to the internet is pretty easy for anyone to do. Once out there, with the aid of search engines we find things to entertain us. Just because it makes it “easy” and has a semi universal flash player to share a video with a friend, are you ready to have your image abused later?
update: I just read blip.tv’s tos. You keep your rights unless you mark a license for that upload. The language used in the “Grant of License” section, is pretty similiar to YouTube, as in losing some rights to content you made, but only for blip.tv and non commercial uses. Of course these terms can change at any time.
[tags]cringley, licensing, content, youtube, sharing, rights, internet, thoughts, rants, blip.tv[/tags]
