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Jul 20, 2006 View in Crawl 4
ryosenJul 20, 2006
@SlappyMcThey don't gain joint-ownership of the content. They gain a license to use it. The license is non-exlusive (hence the lack of ownership) and non-restrictive (we can do with it what they want).This is a fair exchange for a company that is providing you with free content hosting and delivery. If you don't like the terms, you are free, of course, to host the content on your own website.Just because people don't understand the SLA (or even read it) doesn't mean that they are being taken advantage of. J
freddyzJul 20, 2006
To whom will they sell the crappy audio and video quality content?
bs0lJul 20, 2006
This is good to know; I host many of my videos on YouTube just because I'm too lazy to put them on my own sites, I'll think twice now.
hrdcregmer808Jul 21, 2006
i work hard on my videos :(
mr_germainJul 21, 2006
not a new policy. its been like this for a while
kahrnJul 21, 2006
If the content is really important and unique then you wouldn't be stupid enough to put it on a service like youtube in the first place. You'd host it yourself.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2006
Well I didn't think they would mind any of my content either, but recently, one of my videos has been recieving something like 3000 views a day. and usually the most i got in a day were 500 from all my videos
ryosenJul 25, 2006
@SlappyMcIt's not "joint-ownership". It's licensing.