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How do I get my CC license onto YouTube?

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  1. steazypeazy
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    I recently produced a video of a snowboarding contest and posted it to YouTube. I cut the video to a music track sourced from Jamendo.com (released with an Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 license). This seemed the safest option given that the event had commercial sponsors who were likely to pick up on my video and embed it elsewhere; I figured that would be pushing the definition of 'non-commercial' as, by my idea of fair-play, the video would essentially have become a marketing tool - but that's another discussion altogether!

    Here's my problem --- At the end of the video I have of course provided the artist with a full-screen graphic crediting the track and album name. I also got the code ready for the license for my work but I cannot find any way on YouTube to include the HTML or attach a CC license to the video to make people aware that it has been released under Creative Commons (and YouTube's forum sheds no light on it at all). Any ideas for how to sort this out? I've provided attribution to the artist but my video is already racking up the hits and I feel like I've only lived up to half my part of the deal by having no easy way of drawing attention to the licensing of my derivative. Would an in-video Creative Commons graphic be the best way in future (perhaps with a URL for the license agreement underneath?)

    Any guidance would be much appreciated, cheers guys!

    Tom

    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. nalts
    Member

    Tom- unless you're in the YouTube Partners program (where you have a field to list CC and other information), there isn't a way to communicate that to YouTube. However it's unlikely someone would take action on your video. I suggest simply putting the CC information at the bottom of your video description. If someone raised concerns, they'd look there first. And that should keep you secure. As for your first point, you would have had plausible deniability on commercial use until you said that on this discussion board! ;)

    Posted 1 year ago #

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