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YouTube Introduces Creative Commons Option

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-so-common dept.

geegel writes "YouTube has announced that it will introduce a Creative Commons license option and also provide remixing capabilities in its video editor. 'You can now access an ever-expanding library of Creative Commons videos to edit and incorporate into your own projects. ... You’ll also be able to mark any or all of your videos with the Creative Commons CC-BY license that lets others share and remix your work, so long as they give you credit.'"

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  1. Only CC-BY? by XanC · · Score: 2

    Why not CC0? Why do they care to prevent that? Or is "public domain" already an option?

  2. Could be cool. by softWare3ngineer · · Score: 2

    I could see this ending badly when a million people miss-use this licensed material and / or use someones copyrighted work and mark it CC

  3. Uncontactable author by tepples · · Score: 2

    So once you become uncontactable, do you want your work to become unusable?

    1. Re:Uncontactable author by Thruen · · Score: 2

      Nah, just put him on the pending list like the big boys do.

  4. Re:what about by aBaldrich · · Score: 2

    YouTube partners get money from advertisement.
    They are clever: you can share as long as you let YT profit from it.

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    In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.
  5. The studio recordings of Rick Astley are not CC-BY by tepples · · Score: 2

    Begun the Rick-rolling wars have.

    Not necessarily. The studio recordings of Rick Astley are not CC-BY and thus will not be available to users of the automated remix tools.