Yes, it is certainly an interesting way of looking at things. It is the most compatible with the 'wild west' realities of the internet, the only one that deals with the realities of what people do and what technology allows, rather than the theoretical 'what is legal'.
If I ever get my finger out and make a regular show, my mode of operation will be along those lines. Encourage as much redistribution as possible, put plenty of 'branding' in the video itself, mention my main website in the videos and give people extra reasons to want to visit the main site, and try to look on the bright side regarding leeches, at least its publicity. Its relatively easy for me to take that stance because my mode of operation wont require me to know accurate viewing figures, and my main aim will be for as many people as possible to know my stuff exists and watch it if they like, without trying to force it down their throats or be too overprotective of it. Now I do believe strongly that people should ahve the right to control their work, to certain extents. I believe in Creative Commons and it is important that people are keen to educate offending sites as to the realities. It is important that there be some potential ways to make vlogging something you can get paid for. I think it is a personal thing, everyone has their own approach to this stuff, and in an era where much of mainstream medias copyrighted work ends up being 'illegitimately' available on the net, its hard to expect that vloggers will ever fully escpae having their stuff leeched in some way. For me personally my attitude to offenders largely depends on just how badly they are treating the content, the nature of their site & potential to make money, whether they actually provide a useful service with some extra value, and whether they are claiming to be a legit web 2.0 company claiming to be the next big thing or saviours of the vlogosphere. The history of this group suggests that it is worth complaining about sites that take liberties. I think its fair to say that progress has usually been made - if the people behind a site respond at all, they usually end up fixing at least some of the issues, though few reach the utopia of honouring creative commons to the letter and going out of their way to spread the word on creative commons in all its glory. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those are my sentiments too. > > (Adapt and take advantage of this kind of activity.) > > On 7/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would say that you don't keep up. > > > > If you don't want people to steal you car don't leave the keys in it > > and if you don't want people to steal your video don't put it on the > > Internet. > > > > Or, produce video that you want people to steal and put it on the > > Internet. If they steal it and show it to more people it then helps > > you and you can let them make their money how ever they can by doing > > that for you. > > > > Tim > > > > Tim Street > > Creator/Executive Producer > > French Maid TV > > The Viral Video of "How To's" by French Maids > > http://frenchmaidtv.com > > Subscribe for FREE on > > <ahref="http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes"; target="_blank">iTunes</a> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: > > > > > Argh blogtelevision has some of mine. Infuriatingly, their "remove > > > your > > > site" link requires that your email address match the domain name > > > you want > > > "blocked" from their scanning, "for security purposes". > > > > > > The gall of these people... but at some point how do you even keep up? > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > > Brook Hinton > > > film/video/audio art > > > www.brookhinton.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. <http://ChangeLog.ca/> > > > Vlog Razor... Vlogging News > http://vlograzor.com/ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
