Community Forums / Feature Requests / Creative commons ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

True.
This blog post tells more about it:
advancingusability.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/owned-legal-terms-of-video-hosting-services-compared/

both of your requests are being worked on.

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)

@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.

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.

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.