RE: [Harp-L] A YouTube Warning

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the great heads up. I can see this having ramifications to
folks like Ronnie Shellist, who wants to market his videos as part of a
harp instruction DVD. He should be careful to NOT put *those* videos on
youtube (the ones he has on there currently are just demos and not part
of his instruction I believe). 

In any case, this article (good old cringely, been reading him for a
long time, being a geek myself) does make one thing clear - if you want
your videos on youtube, have someone else put them there. If you (as the
owner, therefore having the power to relinquish the rights) put them
there, you give up a lot. But if someone else (who has no power to give
up rights to something they own) puts the videos there, that's a
different story and not as bad.

Bill Hines

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ken Deifik
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:32 AM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] A YouTube Warning


First, hello to my old pals on Harp-l.  I've been lurking and enjoying
your 
wisdom.

I visited Randy Singer's site this evening and saw that he had posted a 
YouTube-linked video of himself playing.  Great stuff, too.

However, anyone who is thinking of posting their music and image on
YouTube 
ought to look at Cringley's recent article on the subject at

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060727.html

The whole subject of copyright vis-a-vis YouTube is just beginning to
get 
sticky, and is probably going to get stickier.  Apparently by posting to

YouTube you agree to give up all kinds of rights to them.  I'm not a 
lawyer, but I did work in music copyrights a long time ago, and found
this 
article to be a real eye-opener.

I urge anyone who is thinking of posting their music to a website other 
than their own to read the usage agreement very carefully before
posting.

Ken

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