--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Creative Commons needs to make is easy for content creators to let > people know how that would like attribution. > > My cc license says: > > # Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified > by the author or licensor. > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ > > > There isn't any way for me to spcify how I want attribution within > the CC license structure so I write it out on my blog. > > On my blog just under the CC link I have: > > "If you use this video, please list the video credit as "Steve > Garfield / SteveGarfield.com" in the video and on any associated blog > post, and link the credit to stevegarfield.com" > > I guess I should update that to say I'd like a link back to the > permalink of my blog post that the video comes from too... > > > On Jan 4, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > Pegarding point 7, if you want to insist on permalinks then I believe > > thats probably compatible with creative commons, do it as part of the > > license where its up to you to declare how you want to be attributed. > > -- > Steve Garfield > http://SteveGarfield.com
That's precisely one of the problems with re-vlogging. The videos are now out of context. Unless someone goes to http://stevegarfield.com and looks at your page surrounding your video, they're not going to know anything except what's included in your actual video. So in the case that sparked this thread, if MyHeavy plays your video surrounded by chicks and other advertisements, your only hope for your CC license to remain with your video is if you have it IN the actual video. If someone sees it on MyHeavy (as an example... I'm aware they took that functionality down at this point), and decides to click "steal it", they took a video that was already out of context and will now feel free to do whatever they feel like doing with it. I'm sure this is why there are so many legal notices on feature films. The credit roll can go on for days mentioning actors, crew, musicians & writers, who did the graphics, who owns what, etc etc. Of course, that would be a drag to have to add something to every single video that one makes, but without there being some kind of automatic copyright, a "guilty until proven innocent" in the case of any media that anyone posts to the internet, that seems to be the only option to HOPE to keep your license connected to your media. Today was the first I ever heard of a CC license being sent as information in a feed, so I can assume lots of other people had never heard... HAVE never heard of that and aren't going to hear about it. The point being that without some sophisticated knowledge A) that creative commons licensing exists in the first place, and B) that there are certain places you can or should go to look to see how media is licensed, if at all... embedded information isn't going to be of much use in making the average joe aware that they're not allowed to do XYZ with your media. This is especially true when context is removed from your media once or several times over. -- Bill C. http://ReelSolid.TV
