Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <supercanadian AT gmail.com>]

Hello,

Here's something relevant...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/huh-youtube-sends-techcrunch-a-cease-desist/

> "The offense we committed was creating a small tool that lets people
> download YouTube videos to their hard drives. We referenced the tool
> in a recent post that walked people through the process of moving
> YouTube Videos to their iPod.
>
> We created the tool only after a careful review of YouTube's Terms of
> Use, which state "If you download or print a copy of the Content for
> personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary
> notices contained therein." The letter, however, states "The YouTube's
> Terms of Use also allows users to access videos only through the
> functionality of the YouTube website via streaming on the Web, and it
> disallows the functionality of downloading videos." Not only am I
> unable to find that language in YouTube's Terms of Use, it directly
> conflicts with the language I did find and quoted above."

So... that would imply that mean YouTube is applying a TPM wouldn't it?!


See ya

On 10/5/06, Mia Garlick < mia AT creativecommons.org> wrote:

hey alek,

obviously if a cc licensor posts to youtube there is no issue. it's
only if a licensee posts that we need to think about this.  i checked
with mike and his response was that YouTube are not applying a TPM.
they are simply making it difficult to download but not impossible
and there's no real restriction on being able to do so or your usage
after that...

On Oct 5, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Alek Tarkowski wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've just came upon a case that's applicable to our discussion on
> licenses and TPMs / DRMs. I'm wondering, is it a breach of the
> license to post a CC-licensed work solely on YouTube? It's a site
> that, after all, doesn't allow copying of files (though it can be
> done... and quite easily at that). I might be missing something and
> the obvious answer is "no, it's not!", but otherwise this is an
> issue, as sites like YouTube are such a popular way of spreading
> content around.
>
> best,
>
> alek tarkowski
>
>
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