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Uploading guidelines

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  • Only upload videos you create You may only upload videos you have created yourself or participated closely in the creation of.

    • Directors, DPs, editors, musicians, graphic effects artists, and actors may all upload work that they have contributed significantly to the creation of.
    • "I have permission" does not mean you created it. Public domain videos are also prohibited.

  • No Commercial use You may not upload commercials, infomercials, or demos that actively sell or promote a product or service.

    • Exceptions: Independent production companies, authors, musicians, non profits, churches, artists, and actors may show or promote the work they have created, anyone else cannot.
    • Businesses may not use Vimeo to externalize their hosting costs. Vimeo (including Vimeo Plus) is not a business service.
    • No videos containing ads before or after the video unless given explicit permission from a staff member. Videos with any advertisements in them, including links to commercial sites, regardless of content, will be removed.
    • No MLM, get rich quick, cash gifting, work from home business, or any other dubious money making ventures are allowed.
    • No product promotions or sales videos, such as real estate walkthroughs.
    • We reserve the right to allow specific commercial content for coordinated sponsored advertising campaigns on Vimeo.

  • Content policy No gameplay videos, "fan vids", sexually explicit videos, movies, TV, trailers, or anything else you found on the web that you did not create yourself.

    • No sexually illicit material or porn. Non-sexual nudity is okay.
    • No videos that incite hatred, include hate speech, or depict extreme violence.
    • No TV, movies, trailers or other videos you find on the web. You may post videos of yourself on TV, as long as you have the rights to do so and the video is limited to your involvement in the program only.
    • No videos that are just compilations of scenes from TV or movies.
    • No captures of video games or gameplay, regardless if it is edited or not. Machinima with a story is allowed, provided the story is more than "guys doing exactly what the game was made for (eg skateboarding or shooting people)". Machinima videos must be properly labeled as such in the video description to avoid accidental deletion.
    • Video game developers may post videos of their work provided they cite their involvement in the description of the video (maps and mods to commercial games don't count). Here we are talking about development videos, not commercial trailers.
    • Users uploading popular or professional content that they have created should add their role and involvement in the video description and on their profile to avoid accidental deletion.

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