Google Checkout for NGOs announced

[and]

It doesn't however seem that youtube have relaxed their highly  
dubious terms and conditions which basically allow them to do near  
anything with  your work.

http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
"by submitting 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  
successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation  
for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website  
(and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any  
media channels."

I think this is incredibly problematic for any media producer,  
particularly non-profits who are often putting up sensitive materials  
(human rights violations say or indigenous issues). The fact that CC  
licenses are also not available is also cause for concern for those  
interested in marrying their principals with how they license their  
work. I don't think giving away 300 digital cameras (a drop in the  
ocean for YT) really cuts it myself particularly given YT will  
basically get a stack of free content they can then advertise next  
too, they'll make up the cost of those cameras pretty quickly. Add to  
this the fact that YT make it hard to download and remix work and  
only offer low-resolution flash video and you still have a pretty  
standard 'broadcast' media model.

In my opinion YT basically offer an audience, highly valuable, but  
for me it's not enough. I think Plone people should be much more  
interested in creating alternatives to YT that allow people to  
control their content and gather money from advertising or donations  
which YT doesn't currently allow (though apparently they are moving  
to.) Basically that's some of the core reasons for EngageMedia/Plumi  
<http:/plumi.org> which we've been working on for a while now.

If you want to read more rants along this line you can check
http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andrewl/news/freebeer/

Cheers.
Andrew

On 29/09/2007, at 4:51 AM, Alexander Limi wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:06:23 -0700, Alexander Limi <limi at plone.org>  
> wrote:
>
>>> YouTube have just opened up premium accounts to non profits too  
>>> though, there must be something in the air at google :-)
>>
>> Yeah, there's a lot of great NGO activity here these days. :)
>
> Nice, I just saw that they are giving away video cameras to the  
> first 300 NGOs that sign up — I wasn't aware of that:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/nonprofits
>
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