YouTube and Creative Commons: raising the bar on user creativity
Have you ever been in the process of creating a video and just needed that one perfect clip to make it pop? Maybe you were creating your own music video and needed an aerial video of Los Angeles at night to spice it up. Unless you had a helicopter, a pretty powerful camera and some fierce editing skills, this would have been a big challenge. Now, look no further than the Creative Commons library accessible through YouTube Video Editor to make this happen. Creative Commons provides a simple way to license and use creative works.
You can now access an ever-expanding library of Creative Commons videos to edit and incorporate into your own projects. To find a video, just search in the YouTube search bar or from within the YouTube Video Editor. We’re working with organizations like C-SPAN, Public.Resource.org, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and others, so that over 10,000 Creative Commons videos are available for your creative use.
To get started, visit youtube.com/editor and select the CC tab:
You can now access an ever-expanding library of Creative Commons videos to edit and incorporate into your own projects. To find a video, just search in the YouTube search bar or from within the YouTube Video Editor. We’re working with organizations like C-SPAN, Public.Resource.org, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and others, so that over 10,000 Creative Commons videos are available for your creative use.
To get started, visit youtube.com/editor and select the CC tab:
Any video you create using Creative Commons content will automatically show the source videos’ titles underneath the video player:
As part of the launch of Creative Commons licensing on YouTube, you’ll also be able to mark any or all of your videos with the Creative Commons CC-BY license that lets others share and remix your work, so long as they give you credit. To mark your video with the Creative Commons license, select ‘Creative Commons Attribution license’ on the upload page or on the Video Description page:
You can learn more about Creative Commons on YouTube at our help center, and remember that all content must still follow the rules in our Copyright Center.
We’re excited to see what you come up with!
Stace Peterson, Software Engineer, recently watched Conan - Acting Out The Oscar Noms: The Social Network
We’re excited to see what you come up with!
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Is there a way to turn on CC licensing for all your videos at once or do you have to do it one by one?
Nice piece of information. Will definitely be using CC and YouTube Video editor. Thanks.
No option for 'Share-Alike'?
This is great!!
Use Jamendo for CC music. They go great with Youtube videos since that's what i use. I'm glad Youtube finally implemented the CC for a equal share of information.
Any plans to allow other CC licenses, particularly BY-SA or CC0?
Looks like you have to edit them one at a time
Scott, just what I was looking for myself, or at least turn it on as the default for all future uploads?
@Scott For the time being you have to add it one by one.
If you select all the videos in your account by clicking the check box at the top of the Uploaded Videos page, then click Actions, and choose Creative Commons under Licenses.
YouTube ought to enable the ability for newly uploaded videos to be Creative Commons by default.
Could you also add CC-BY-SA as a license because I prefer to not have my videos included in proprietary/not open source videos. E.g. someone could use my videos and then I want to have the right to use parts of that in my response video. If someone includes a CC-BY-SA video the resulting video should automatically get the CC-BY-SA license.
this is a great news for all youtube users, now all I'm missing is a feature to automaticaly insert my intro video to all videos I upload, so all I need to do when uploading a video , is choose wich of my intros to insert before/after my new video
I Wanna Make My Make Me A Winner Season 2 Intro And Ending For TheZachman18
I just uploaded a new video and chose "creative commons" but it shows Youtube license. It will not allow a change.
Doesn't work for me.
The information the gdata API returns about each video appears to still lack license information.
This button is still not working for me ... is there some kind of bug? Is it working for everyone else?
Hello Folks. I'm from Germany. I think this is a very good & interesting feature for "power user" and video producer on YouTube. Now everybody can edit clips for example from nice places when the video is under the CC-BY license. An other good feaure in my opinion is, that YouTube aromatically named the video, you use in the video editor. I love to work with the video editor from YouTube, because it's free with nice features & direct export to my YouTube Channel. With the "Creative Commons Search Feature" now the video editor is optimal for video producers. And the best is: “Everybody can license the own videos under the Creative Commons license”. Thanks for this blog article. Greetings, David (LivedabeiiRedaktion)
I'd like to change the license of my own videos, but I'ts impossible for me for now as i receive this message: "You do not have permission to change the license on one or more of these videos."
But my uploaded videos are mine, created by me, it's my own work but I can't change the license. Any information about this? maybe be the reason is that I'm using youtube as a service inside google Apps with my own domain, but I don't know...
How can we change the license when the CC option is grayed out?
Fix that, please.
Yes, I'd like that as well. Or preferably, a faster mass-selecting that doesn't require me to CC /all/ my videos.
so nice MONSTER PAS CHER site and great post thank you for sharing like it so much
May I edit those videos with my own editor,
or only inside the aplication (Youtube editor) ?
A step in the right direction, but why not CC-BY-SA? CC-BY strikes me as "Hey, give less-open people free content to use!" rather than "Hey, participate in a video community!"
Also here looking for "CC-BY-SA". Add that, and I'll actually set up a Youtube account...
please add CC-BY-SA, that is the license i want to use for my videos
Please add CC-BY-SA
+1 to allowing CC-BY-SA, why give free content to parasites taking it proprietary?
This is so great!!
I wish you add support of CC-BY-SA and CC0 in the future.
Share Alike encourages remixing and giving back, while plain BY can mean that someone else can "lock" something I was giving with lesser limitations.
On the other hand, some things HAVE to be Public Domain, it doesn't make sense to claim ownership over them, so CC0 is also an important label.
also missing CC-BY-SA
I've wanted this feature for a very long time, but why is there only one option? I already specify my CC licenses with the works I release, so YouTube expanding the ease of using CC is great. But plenty of my CC-licensed works I will not be able to put into YouTube's CC system, because I specify something other than CC-BY. If I choose to use your CC-BY option for a video where I intended CC-BY-NC, CC-BY will effectively override the work's intended license. Thus I can only choose "standard" when I don't mind others using my work. :(
How sly to only allow one of the ~6 licenses, specifically, the least restrictive, commercial use one, while i have to put the CC-BY-NC-SA license in the description, and it wont show up in the video editor
Like many others here, I'd like the ability to set my videos to CC-BY-SA. However, I'd also like (to have the option to) add NC to that. I don't want other people making money off of video I gave them for free.
Any plans to allow other CC licenses, particularly BY-SA and CC0? [+1]
Excellent development! I have now edited my video uploads over to "Creative Commons Attribution License (reuse allowed). If there was a release into Public Domain button I would have chosen that. I released them in the text anyway. Now if there was only a simple way to request un-flagging of false-flagged videos. It's annoying that people have to log in to view two of my lingerie customer review (positive) videos.
Kudos on adding CC-BY as an option. I hope video sharing and re-use will get easier and that more impediments can be removed.
I, too, want CC-BY-SA!
It would be really great if you could add a download option for Creative Commons licensed videos (or even the option to download any video for which the creator allows it). Some people prefer to view or edit video in their own player or with their own editing software.
I also agree with everyone asking for a BY-SA option. Without that option, it becomes difficult for people to use material in the production of their video that is licensed under BY-SA terms (such as a lot of content from Wikipedia).
CC-BY-SA! Would be cool. And also the option to automatically print the videos one has used as material in the the end texts!
CC-BY-SA. Video export button. Print original material authors into endtexts. Replace audio with own file.
nice one
This function is constantly greyed out for me.
Why might that be ? A bug ?
And why does no one from YT reply to any question in here ?
Ok, I found the answer for why the options on ly videos are greyed out constantly here:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1284989
I think that's a bit paranoya of YouTube to block a member for the rest of his life.
Strange people they are.
+1 for @Hampton's "A step in the right direction, but why not CC-BY-SA? CC-BY strikes me as 'Hey, give less-open people free content to use!' rather than 'Hey, participate in a video community!'". Please add CC-BY-SA and CC0.
I get, "You do not have permission to change the license on one or more of these videos." when trying to make any of my videos creative commons...even the ones that are my own songs, etc.
Some of my videos have the creative commons option faded out and I cannot change it. When I noticed this i changed the embedding allowance to NO. I would like to let others use the video as long as they give me credit. Is there a way to fix this?
Ok...why isnt my comments posting?
Some of my videos have the creative commons option faded out and I am unable to change the license even though the video is mine. When I noticed this I changed the 'embedding' ability to 'NO'. I would like to let others use my videos but only if they are going to give me credit. Is it too late to change it?
A few notes on Creative Commons. First, if your video contains audio added by YouTube, then it cannot be changed to CC. Instead, you can upload the raw files and mark them as CC, as I did with my videos. Second, the default must NEVER be CC, as this would create KAOS when people start complaining that somebody stole their work. Copyright is the default at Picasa, Panoramio, YouTube and Flickr. Third, CC-BY is the only license that is legally binding, as your material is now Public Domain, and not Copyright. No judge will accept a lawsuit for ANY CC license, since you gave up your rights and potential income with CC. If you need to place restrictions on your material, then give permission to your copyright on a case~by~case basis. Thank you Google for using just one license for CC.
that work for me. as soon my video start to get made. i give everyone right to them as long it not my art work or other people stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ICRoadRace
Please add support for CC-By-SA. Some of us prefer it that way.
@summer vacation...i have a video from an mma fight in cambodia. No music added, nothing added thats not mine. I recently was contacted by an internet magazine who was asking about the video. I got worried they were trying to steal it and remembered there was a way to change the licensing. When I went to adjust the license, the option was faded and I was unable to change it...suggestions? Possible reasons?
IT says you do not have permission to change the license on my videos which have 100% my own content. youtube is very hard to contact and they are becoming a pain
We need CC-BY-SA-NC if we're going to use YouTube as our main video publishing tool.
well that is because YOU CAN NOT put a NC video on youtube at all since that would mean YOUTUBE could not display the video (they are a commercial operation and their BUSINESS is your video's)
What is needed is a #7 option. a NC "except" for youtube option. or I guess really two licenses. one you give to youtube and one your permit "viewers" to have.
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