Staff Blog / Recycle, Remix and Re-use with Creative Commons
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by dalas verdugo
July 13th, 2010Sharing videos on Vimeo has always gone beyond passively viewing the clips our fellow Vimeans upload. Many of us have given permission for others to take what we've done and screen it at events or chop it up and make something completely new. For a long time, we have wanted to make these kinds of permissions easier to grant, and we're pleased to announce that after working together with the fine folks over at Creative Commons, we've done just that!
Today we are launching a new Settings option that allows you to add one of several Creative Commons licenses to your videos. What does this mean? It means that while you still retain the copyright for your work, you can allow other people to distribute it, remix it or use it for a new purpose, commercial or noncommercial. All of this while still requiring that they credit you for the original work. You can choose specifically what types of use you're going to allow, just head to the Settings page for one of your videos and you'll see the new options under 'License'.
You can read more about Creative Commons licenses at their website.
We think this is going to be a real step forward for the creative culture here on Vimeo, and we're just as excited to use these new options as we are to see what you guys do with your new SUPERPOWERS.
Note to licensees (those who will be using other's works): Vimeo's golden rule is that you may not upload videos that you did not create yourself, so this isn't a pass to redistribute other users' videos on Vimeo.com. Rather, it's an opportunity to build on a work that someone else has created with your own, unique contributions. Also, please make sure that what you do with another user's video complies with the license that person has granted.
Note to licensors (those who will be granting permission for others to use their works): This may seem obvious, but you can only grant permission for others to use your original works, and not other people's works. So please make sure that all of the elements in the videos you license to others were created by you.
If you have any specific questions, please check the FAQ. Have fun with it!
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are you clicking the "save changes" button after you make the license changes?
They are not "sticking" :(
I can reproduce this problem on firefox 3.6 and safari 5.0 on Mac.
I will be very interested to see the clashes that this might create.
If I find a video on flickr with a CC by-nc-nd I won't be able to upload it to VIMEO?
According to the CC License given by the autor (creator of the video), I can.
I think this is a great step, mind you, and I've been a strong advocate for Creative Commons for more than 3 years.
Still I think that that statement on the post really goes against everything that CC stands for in what comes to sharing.
Thoughts?
- CC is about sharing as much as possible, spreading the work of any given artist as much as possible through all channels available while reassuring the artist that all his/her rights are protected.
How can this be "partially true"?
Also I don't see how it can "compromise the quality of the content found on VIMEO" or the "quality of the community".
Care to develop on that aspect?
This is site policy, separate from copyrights and licenses and all of that.
I am not sure if that is even legal to tell you the truth since CC is an International Body and under the general law (of any country) no company can have ToS or policies that can't be framed inside a general legal framework.
I am not trying to start a flame here, please don't get me wrong.
As you can see by the comment below me and Michael (also someone that has been distributing CC music for a long time) had already thought of creating a movement to "press" VIMEO to adopt a CC Licensing scheme.
I am just interested in knowing what will be the policy in what regards to videos that can be found elsewhere and that have
1. CC by-
2 CC by-nc
3 CC by-nc-nd
I am leaving out -sa since those usually apply for remixed material and that I already have an answer for.
The 'partially true' part was answered by Dalas: "This is site policy, separate from copyrights and licenses and all of that."
My problem was with the comment "Still I think that that statement on the post really goes against everything that CC stands for in what comes to sharing."
We play under Vimeo's rules and unlike most other websites I believe Vimeo's rules do make this a better community (the best video community in my opinion). I think that the Flickr-Getty issue is indeed "against everything that CC stands for" but in this case Vimeo is just trying to keep its position as a place for original content.
And ok, maybe 'quality' wasn't the best word haha. But free services like Vimeo sometimes get filled with lots of 'noise' and redundant content.
My irst reply might have been rushed, my love for Vimeo and CC is too big : )
Taking an aim at Flickr and at the hilarious Getty-Images deal will not answer the question here and the fact that CC is huge on Flickr and it works smoothly :-)
My question still stands about the legal framework where an international license that is valid under many legal systems and even has a general license that abides to the general law of any (democratic) country can be ignored by a private company's ToS and/or policies.
Again I am not a troll or do I want to start a flame, don't get me wrong.
I do believe that VIMEO stands out from other video sharing services and that the adoption of a Creative Commons Licensing scheme can open the doors to very interesting interactions between artists that are already on VIMEO or that will be attracted to VIMEO exactly because of it.
But the question about the CC by-xx-xx (except -sa) still stands.
If you can direct traffic to fewer sources and spread the word on other outlets then you have a much better chance of catching a wave and having a much more substantial amount of hits.
There are already enough videos on Vimeo before we start posting duplicates and the policy is is to thank for it.
Thanks Blake! Can't wait!
here's a recent mix of CC music --bit.ly/bRFreO -- hope it inspires some great new works!
And hey Vimeo! Thanks for doing this! Its great!!! :)
Thanks to this update, its now much easier for video creators to give their works CC licenses that match with the music they find on the FMA. Right on Vimeo!!
However I am also having some teething problems. I can also confirm that I am trying to add a CC license to a video, am selecting the license, selecting save, and then choosing "go to video". When I do that, there is nothing on the video page and if I go back into settings again the license is set back to no license. Looks like a fault when applying it to existing videos. I tried this with this one: vimeo.com/13238479
I've just started a work discussing Re-mix and had planned to shoot a couple of interviews about related topics to use on my own master essay/video but also had planned to create either a channel or album where I could put the full interviews and share/allow download them with other people studying the same subject... The CC license just came in handy to make my efforts legit.
btw, thanks for the update!
My only gripe: I can't *search* for other Creative Commons videos!!! On FlickR, which also supports CC, there is a way to search for such pictures (in the Advanced Search page), and makes CC actually useful. On Vimeo people will have to search for something, and then click on *all* the resulted pages and read the license one by one. Please provide a way to search for only and each of the CC licenses! Thanks! :)
i wouldnt like to have my work mixed by a vj for instance
on the other hand, youtube is offering a 5 million grant to their users (the ones who made viral videos)
But 99% of the time people will cut and paste the Flickr photo embed code and never link to my site. The embed code gets linked back to Flickr instead. Flickr gets all the credit instead of me.
I would love to see sites like Flickr and Vimeo to provide an easy way for people to use my content that I give away for free and link to my site automatically.
I find that people are very lazy and will not read instructions on how they are allowed to them.
I know that 99% of the people don't attribute correctly because I can see it in the referral traffic from my Flickr stats. This happens several days a week and I write them a nice letter asking for credit and 90% of the time they do.
CCL electronik belgians artits
electrobel.be/muzik
vimeo.com/guidelines
this rocks, fast and easy way of licensing.
Thanks for this enhancement.
Thanks!