YouTube
topped all records today by tallying up 4 million Creative
Commons-licensed videos in its trove — more than any other video hosting
company in the world.
This means that users have literally
millions of choices for snipping bits of footage, adding scenes, and
building onto videos they’re making. Everything in this collection comes
branded with the Creative Commons Attribution license, meaning users
don’t have to get explicit permission to use the content from the
creators.
YouTube launched its Creative Commons video library last
year and since then it said its users have added in “40 years’ worth of
video.” Much of the content is from well-known media distributors, such
as C-SPAN, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera.
Here’s what Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly wrote on YouTube’s blog today:
Do
you need a professional opening for your San Francisco vacation video?
Perhaps some gorgeous footage of the moon for your science project? How
about a squirrel eating a walnut to accompany your hot new dubstep
track? All of this and more is available to inspire and add to your
unique creation. Thanks to CC BY, it’s easy to borrow footage from other
people’s videos and insert it into your own, because the license grants
you the specific permissions to do so as long as you give credit to the
original creator.
You can pass on the creative spirit when you
publish your video, by choosing the option to license it under CC BY so
that others can reuse and remix your footage with the YouTube Video
Editor. This is where the fun really starts. Imagine seeing your footage
used by a student in Mumbai, a filmmaker in Mexico City, or a music
video director in Detroit. By letting other people play with your
videos, you let them into a global sandbox…
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