Several media reports indicate that YouTube is
changing its program and requiring content providers, at least established
companies trying to become program partners, to accept new terms of service or
find their material removed.
It is not immediately clear whether this measure
could affect ordinary posters. The most
concerned seemed to be composers of music videos. The CNET story raised this possibility and
indicate there was no real information as to this point. The Guardian examined a
number of scenarios. But Forbes came out
and stated baldly that independent artists who did not agree to new agreements
would soon have their videos removed. I'm not sure what the term "indie labels" means in these news stories. Am I an "indie label"?
It is common for videos to be removed for copyright
infringement under DMCA Safe Harbor, and for some videos to be excluded by an
automated procedure than can detect some infringement. It’s also common for
users to remove their own videos, or for videos to become private. Occasionally
videos that I have embedded on blogs become unavailable (the embed looks blank)
and sometimes when clicked YouTube will return “video does not exist.”
There seemed to be some concerns over videos that
somehow are monetized without requiring the visitor to watch sponsoring ads.
YouTube has its own current rules(for participation in the Partner Program) at this link. You have to own all the rights to a video’s
content (including music) to have monetization approved. Today, I posted some videos and was invited to look at these links.
I have not yet tried to monetize any videos. Most of my videos are very short clips taken
at demonstrations or at QA sessions after film screenings, and these don’t seem
appropriate. But I expect to be creating
larger documentary videos soon, and these would probably be appropriate.
This is an issue where comments from someone who knows the actual facts in detail would help.
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