Google Rolls Out YouTube Creative Commons Licenses

Nearly five years after Google purchased YouTube, the web titan continues to add features to the world?s largest video website.

In a bid to put more power into users? hands, Google is rolling out Creative Commons licenses for YouTube. The goal is to make it easy for users to identify videos they can share, edit and remix. The feature will be introduced as part of the YouTube Video Editor, YouTube Product Manager Jason Toff said in an interview.

YouTube annnounced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday.

Creative Commons is ten-year-old organization that was co-founded by Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard professor and political activist. The organization has issued several copyright licenses as an alternative to the traditional copyright model.

Starting Thursday, users will be able to mark their videos with the Creative Commons CC BY license, which gives other YouTube users the right to share and remix your videos, as long as they attribute the source of the original clip.

As part of the launch, YouTube is teaming up with C-SPAN, PublicResource.org, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and others groups to establish a library of 10,000 Creative Commons videos available for users to experiment with.

Image: YouTube

Sam Gustin is a New York-based Staff Writer at Wired.com.
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Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/youtube-creative-commons/

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