In an article in late July, the journalist and analyst Robert X. Cringely examines the publication of content licensed under Creative Commons licenses at social networking sites such as YouTube . Analyzing the conditions of use service, Cringely notes that post a video on YouTube means giving in to YouTube the opportunity 'to achieve with this compilation video commercial, dubbed versions so as to reverse the effect, which only use the spot soundtrack and of course the chance 'to include any advertising message.
This is probably true for many other services online and also applies to works released under Creative Commons licenses, but only if the publication is done directly by the author.
who does not own rights to work they can not 'move on to others who publishes a video on YouTube where it has rights does not confer any right to YouTube. Similarly you can 'say other rights, such as the ability' to create derivative works from the original. Although YouTube's terms of use prohibit the uploading of copyrighted video, the majority of video is loaded by people who do not have rights.
For those who use free licenses, the board of Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons) and to the authors' then: avoid being yourself to publish your works on YouTube and sites with similar conditions of use. At the same time do not worry if they are published by someone else, because 'in this case there is no' transfer of your rights.
Lessig also defines the term ridiculous to use the YouTube service. actually accept these conditions is to ignore the devastating consequences that may result , but millions of people have already 'done' cause the conditions of use are rarely read, in English and complex to read.
This situation, however, is not 'new, and indeed' very frequent use software or digital devices. Among the social networking services that have recently emerged YouTube and 'a very significant example, given the size of its audience, but certainly not' the only one. There 's the need to have more' light, perhaps a comparative survey of the complicated conditions of use of MySpace, Google Video, del.icio.us and other similar web services.
/ 10.08.2006 - The well-known and much-criticized computer journalist John C. Dvorak YouTube is enthusiastically in an article, accusing other experts fail to recognize the success of YouTube. Although not even take into account the aspects dealt with above, recommends that all services YouTube. Pay attention to the experts and journalists to whom you trust!
(the link to the article and the book have been omitted because Dvorak Dvorak, formerly known as the most 'influential computer journalist in the world, recently said to write provocative things in order to have a lot of comments of protest on its website, and therefore higher profits with banner ads 
