Media darling YouTube is getting its media comeuppance.
Xeni Jardin in BoingBoing: YouTube’s new policy says: we own your content.
The newly revised Terms and Conditions page at YouTube raises important questions for anyone who uploads videos there. …
Wired News blogs: YouTube’s ‘New’ Terms Still Fleece Musicians.
“…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.”
Compare and contrast, class, to Ourmedia’s Site rules:
You own your own material. Ourmedia claims no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to our service.
ZDNet: YouTube has been sued for copyright infringement.
ZDNet: It’s inevitable: this YouTube suit will be the first of many from the copyright machine.
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the worst terms of service agreement i have seen so far is yahoo’s: http://video.yahoo.com/html/tos.html?fr=FP-tab-vid-t-t402
“You hereby grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable rights and licenses:
a. to host, cache, store, archive, index, crawl, create algorithms based thereon, modify or transcode the Video Content to appropriate media formats, standards or mediums as part of the Yahoo! Video Service;
b. to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, remix, excerpt, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform and publicly display the Video Content on the Yahoo! Video Service or on any Yahoo! property, including in connection with any distribution or syndication arrangement thereof with third parties or third party sites, in any media format or medium and through any media channels; and
c. to use Your Video Content for advertising, promotional or commercial purposes, including without limitation, the right to publicly display, perform, reproduce and distribute Your Video Content in any media format or medium and through any media channels.”
and
“Yahoo! reserves and has the right to sell, license and/or display any advertising, promotional and distribution rights in connection with Your Video Content and Yahoo! will be entitled to retain any and all revenue generated from any sales or licenses of such advertising, promotional or distribution rights. Nothing in these Additional Terms obligates or may be deemed to obligate Yahoo! to sell, license or offer to sell or license any advertising, promotion or distribution rights.”