Beware! You Tube now owns your content

[Steven W]

Video site, You Tube, have revised their user terms and conditions. It now appears as though they'll be able to sell any video that you submit to a third party.

This could of course create a huge problem for the numerous bands and musicians who showcase their talent on the site. After all, what's stopping them from ripping a track to a CD and selling it on?

It's interesting to see that there is no mention of these new terms on the front page of the website.

You Tube shows approximately 100 mililon videos per day.

"…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business… in any media formats and through any media channels."

New terms

[Oobie-]

oh my...thats quite a pickle, but I think the people who put that stuff up want it to be shared.
However if getting money off of this is what they plan to achieve, its wrong

[Steve B]

its not exactly been a long-thought out decision though is it. of course the tube are going to do everything they can to make money from it, after brookers or whatever her name was got signed by Carson Daly. If they can get a piece of the pie for free, then obviously they'll take it!

[Oobie-]

^^ what Steve B said - I just read about brookers getting signed in gen disc:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=80896

THAT must explain why they did it tbf

[Bob Crabtree]

There's an interesting take on this whole area in a BBC story - Fighting sites that hijack rights.

This highlights how some operators changed their terms, including MySpace and MSN.

[Mike Fishcake]

Worth waiting to see how YouTube comment on this, if they do.

I'm fairly sure that google video currently don't claim to be able to do what they want with it.

TBH it would be really, really STUPID of youtube to do that, especially considering the amount of 'copyrighted' material that is on there anyway - they're just opening themselves up for more legal troubles.

[DavidM]

Rather sly this...

[autopilot]

People will just move elsewhere.