Chuck Pullen
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Do what I did… build your own HD rack, learning from their mistakes, take all of their clients, and BURY THEM!
It feels great!
Chuck
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Well that is kind of the point, that worked for you in your production as it was a one time thing and you had time to acquire rights.
This guy, or a show like Tosh.0/The Soup is doing a nightly or weekly show and the only way they could really make that work, would be to get some sort of blanket permission from YouTube.
Realistically they can’t pick clips, ask for permission, negotiate individually, and still produce timely programming.
Chuck
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That works, but if you need to continually adjust audio on tapes, you will have to run it through a mini-mixer… Or you can drill holes in the front and attach sticks to the pots like an engineer did to our MC decks at my old station.
Chuck
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So the follow up question to your point would be “If someone gives YouTube limited license rights, can YouTube in turn receive compensation or give permission to a third party to use of said video?” Can someone like Graeme ask YouTube for blanket permission to use any video that they would like from their site in return for compensation/publicity, or does he need to contact each original rights holder individually?
Chuck
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You buy the drinks at a karaoke bar and I can give it the ole’ college try 🙂
Chuck
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[Andrew Rendell] “7.2 You retain all of your ownership rights in your Content, but you are required to grant limited licence rights to YouTube”
How would you define “limited license rights”? This has been discussed at length in the business & marketing forum MANY times over the past few years from the perspective of the content creator. Yes you retain the rights to your video, but once it’s posted on YouTube, you have to assume that everyone in the world is going to see and/or possibly reuse your video and their isn’t much you can do about it.
I know a photog who shot some fairly famous video of a news incident in the Midwest several years ago. A third party that bought the rights just to air the footage, also posted it online and shared it for free to other news outlets that legally should have paid to air that footage. He has spend almost $100,000 just to file all of the paperwork and prepare a case, and he hasn’t even gone to court yet!
Bottom-line, if you post video/photos online people are going to see, use, and probably not pay you for it if they can get for free. Again from my news background, we regularly use YouTube clips and just give the courtesy without really bothering to obtain permission.
I would say an entertainment program MAY get away with that, but there you are also exposing yourself to a potential lawsuit from the original rights holder.
Chuck
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I’ve heard that it is actually quite hard to get work in Canada. When a Canadian entity hires you for a project, the government asks why it is that they need to bring in a foreigner to work for them, and they have to prove that you can provide a service that no other Canadian can do. That sounds tricky to pull off…
Now that may be for an actual position and not for occasional per diem work or contract work, but I’m not sure.
Chuck
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It’s been my understanding, that once you post a video on YouTube, Face book, Etc… It becomes THEIR VIDEO! That being the case, whenever you see YouTube video on the news, the usually courtesy YouTube, unless the poster is some well known entity. Now that is for news programming, this may be different for an entertainment program, but as far as just grabbing random clips that were shot by individuals, you should be able to use it without their permission, although I wouldn’t suggest that with large corporations.
Chuck
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What AJA has to realize is that even though they have a unique product today, Blackmagic just released a new VTR that uses SSD drives. If they come out with a “mini” version of that soon, AJA may see many customers jumping ship since they can purchase their own drives.
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I would hate to agree, but I think you are on to something. My guess is that as much potential as the Ki Pro has to replace traditional VTR’s, the mini has a wider range of uses, and thus has more sales potential. I really love my Ki Pro, and if they ever all of the promised features added, I would probably buy one or two more.
Chuck