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  • TweakingKnobs 1 year ago
    How do i know wich videos have a CC liscence ?


    I think it would be great that VIMEO would encourage the people to liscence their stuff to a CC and tell them how this is good for them and for others .



    What do you think ?
  • Soxiam staff 1 year ago
    right now, there's no way to search CC licensed content on vimeo. we're looking into this now and hope we can offer it soon.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Any news on this? I believe it's very important for cultural reasons to have Vimeo sport a combo box when a user is uploading a video and have some selections in there, e.g. Creative commons (there are about 20 CC sublicenses to choose, but you can just only include the words "Creative Commons" and leave it at that), restricted, other etc. Blip.TV and FlickR have such an option, and Revver's content is all CC by default.

    People who don't know what's that or don't want to mess with it, can just ignore the combo box. For those who choose a license, this can be shown as a placeholder under the "Credits" placeholder on the video page.

    The vast majority of my videos are CC and I would like to help people to find it easier, download it, remix it. It's important for philosophical and social reasons to me.
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  • TweakingKnobs 1 year ago
    or a CC search would be fine , but if vimeo encourages people to use a CC liscence its more possible that they do it , we trust yu , your whole concept is web 2.0. CC is more of the same , This would be a great resource to get clips to remix and use as material , the old idea of not letting people use your stuff for remixing etc... is not letting your proyect been seeing.
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  • jparryhill 1 year ago
    Seconded. As an author, being able to select an appropriate CC license from a dropdown, and have that show up somewhere unobtrusive in the player, would be rad.
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  • Nine Orders 1 year ago
    Yes a dropdown, automatically giving the appropriate creativecommons badge and a link through the license would be great to immediately flag one's material as CC friendly.

    + a custom cc search = immensely useful.
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  • CreativeMill 1 year ago
    How would the 'usage' for a Creative Commons (cc) video be defined?
    When someone visits the video page, would the author of the video put their specs for it's usage for the user to abide by?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    The author only has to say which CC sub-license it is. For example, he can choose among ~20 CC sub-licenses, like: CC-BY, CC-NC, CC-SA, CC-ND, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-SA-ND, CC-BY-ND-NC, CC-ND-NC, CC Public Domain Dedication, CC Sampling Plus, etc etc.

    Then, the person who wants to use that work, will have to go and find what these mean. But it's very easy to know:
    BY= just requires attribution
    NC=no commercial
    ND= no derivative (it also means you can't put video with ND music)
    SA= license your video under the same license as this source video

    I release my videos under the most "free" CC license, the CC-BY, I only require attribution if my work is reused elsewhere. I include all the info needed in the credits of my videos. On the vimeo page I simply mention that the video and music is CC-BY, and I use the "Creative Commons" tag.

    If you are talking about straight viewing and not re-using the video, then any CC license allows you to download and view the video for your own personal entertainment. This is the difference between CC media and RIAA/MPAA media. You have to pay for their media, but it's free for personal entertainment if it's CC. So "free for personal entertainment" is the most restrictive form of CC, and it gets only free-er from that point on (e.g. it allows remixes, derivatives, commercial usage, etc etc) depending on the sub-license the media is licensed on.
  • 01VideoLab 10 months ago
    Read carefully the license agreement you accepted when you subscribed to Vimeo...and you might find out that you already granted Vimeo the right to use your videos in ANY way.
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  • CreativeMill 1 year ago
    Thanks ;)
    I have minimal experience with this stuff.
    (I used a CC photo a while back for a project for a customer's ad/banner, and it worked out great) I think the site I used to acquire that photo, must have had a hot-link that let me see what it's CC sub-license meant.
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  • UltraBob plus 1 year ago
    Let me just pile on and say this feature is highly desirable!
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  • peggy french 11 months ago
    New to this stuff. Is the only CC option at this time a note in the description? Or....? Thanks for any help.
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  • Jordi Canals plus 11 months ago
    I think it's a good idea to show about the video license. And, in my opinion, Creative Commons is the most suitable for most Vimeo Users.

    I used to license all my works (videos, pictures, writing, etc.) in some sort of CC license and it worked fine for me.
    I had to license as BY-NC-ND (Attribution, No Commercial Use-Non Derivative works) mostly because the soundtrack. I got permissions to use the soundtrack for the specific video, but cannot derivate it from the video to be used anywhere else (I can't do it).

    I'm studying on some sort of less restrictive CC license or dual-license (Video-Audio) to allow parts of my works to be used with attribution and for not commercial use.

    Considering about commercial use, If we share freely our works, we don't want anybody making money with them. If somebody is going to make money with my work, it's reasonable that I reserve my right to claim some of that money because it's my work. I've seen some publicity agencies by using other people's pictures and making lots of money, and the real author got nothing for it.
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  • Jordi Canals plus 11 months ago
    By the way, but not just start tagging the video with "CC" of "Creative Commons" ?
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  • pixeljuggler 11 months ago
    You can embed most videos anyway, so sharing is not the problem every video is already attributed in one sence. I reckon the issue is reuse for remix meaning vimeo would have to make video available to download.
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  • Jordi Canals plus 11 months ago
    For those who want to credit their works with Creative Commons licenses, I've posted some videos with just the Creative Commons credits. Posted to the Creative Commons Group: vimeo.com/groups/creativecommons

    I use videos like that at the end of all my videos.
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  • Article19 plus 10 months ago
    i'll add a vote for a creative commons widget like they have on Flickr (you know Yahoo should really buy Vimeo!! ;o)
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  • Jeff 10 months ago
    All of this is cool but you can easily contact any members and ask them for permission and they can grant you a license and send you a download link. To really keep the quality of the derivative work as good as possible you can't just download the video straight from Vimeo, wouldn't you want to get access to the uncompressed footage? Now, I'd pay extra to have a copy of the unprocessed video I have uploaded to be able to share with others. Whatever files I have uploaded I'd like to be able to specify a member or even non-member to share.
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  • Remco Hekker 10 months ago
    Thanks for starting this thread. I agree this feature is really disireable. I'm Using Vimeo in some educational courses. And we as filmmakers have an obligation to protect not just our selfs but our actors, and composers as well. Not licensing our video's mean we will not be able to work with professional actors and up comming musicians in courses anymore. Vimeo can really helpout here the way Flickr does.
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  • Obscura plus 10 months ago
    Looking forward to creative commons licensing here on Vimeo. Thanks in advance.

    ccmixter.org/ is another good example of creative commons licensing.
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  • Sebastian Olenyi plus 9 months ago
    I want and NEED cc!
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  • Renée Turner plus 9 months ago
    Creative Commons is the way to go :-) A simple click button on various forms of licensing would do.... Or some connect button to CC site.
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  • Paul Jacobson 9 months ago
    I would also like to see Creative Commons support in Vimeo. A number of other services do support it already so it is very possible.
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  • Andris Krastiņš 9 months ago
    +1
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  • Harald Walker plus 6 months ago
    +1

    Eugenia wrote a good piece about using creative commons media in your videos:
    osnews.com/story/20575/Guide_to_Creative_Commons_Media_for_Videographers

    And Creative Commons also has a page:
    creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos/
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  • Raffaella Traniello 5 months ago
    Please, add Creative Commons serious support (and change the Vimeo legal terms accordingly!)
    I think it helps Vimeo too to get rid of copyright issues.
    Please!
  • Soxiam staff 5 months ago
    both of your requests are being worked on.
  • Harald Walker plus 5 months ago
    And not to forget the advertisement situation for paying Vimeo Pro customers, which makes it difficult to publish Creative Commons material which requires non-commercial usage. (I know it is being discussed - hope to see answers soon)
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 4 months ago
    @Sox: I'm super excited to hear this is an issue at Vimeo :) support for CC licensing would be amazing.

    I'm sure this is already the plan and then some - since the Vimeo team always seems to spend a lot of time thinking about the effects of every feature on the community - but it would be awesome to have in-depth support for CC. Like filterable search results and... only be able to add a video to a certain group if has a certain CC license... etc.

    Okay ;) that is all.
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  • Sebastiano Poggi 5 months ago
    +1 for CC tagging! thanks guys :)
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  • Martin Thoburn 5 months ago
    CC is very important for vimeo. The site already allows people to download the original file, without giving the author an easy way to inform people about how they want that work to be used or not used. ie. remix, share alike, by attribution etc... not to mention searching for CC content would be a huge benefit to the community.
  • Harald Walker plus 5 months ago
    Martin, the author could just add his licensing information to the credits of the original file. Depending on the original file format (e.g. Quicktome) the author can also embed meta-data like copyright information.
  • Martin Thoburn 5 months ago
    Yes, I know this is a good option for now. however true CC support is still needed in my opinion. It makes the process faster, and could allows for searching CC content.
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  • Diti 5 months ago
    Support!
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  • Adrián Prado 4 months ago
    +1
    Please!
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  • Ruth Tringham plus 4 months ago
    Yes please! If Flickr can make it so easy, surely Vimeo can
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  • Aeryn River 4 months ago
    great to hear you at vimeo are working on this :)
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  • Harald Walker plus 4 months ago
    @Sox: Any update on the TOS question?
    Compared to other video hosting sites the Vimeo terms don't look so good.
    advancingusability.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/owned-legal-terms-of-video-hosting-services-compared/
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  • Erik Westrup 4 months ago
    Oh YES, I want to have my videos under some CC.
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  • Van Pali 7 days ago
    CC is important! CC-BY-NC

    BY = Maker has always to be mentioned.
    NC = No sub-licensable commercial rights.

    With current VIMEO TOS a user would be notified, but 3rd parties could make money without compensation to the user. YES?
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