Recordings talks about Free Software

[Georg C. F. Greve]

 || On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:57:41 +0200
 || Patrick Ohnewein <patrick.ohnewein at lugbz.org> wrote: 

 po> For my understanding the submitter is transferring the rights "to
 po> use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display,
 po> and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube
 po> Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business"

I think that *granting* those rights would be a better description, as
transferring might be seen as implying you don't have them anymore.

Having skimmed across the language briefly it seemed like a
non-exclusive licence grant, which means that your rights are not
affected. So this is not a copyright transfer, which would be an
exclusive licence grant.


 po> What I don't know and understand is, if this means that YouTube
 po> has the right to reduce the freedoms on the content.

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly.

YouTube can certainly not restrict what you do, so if you authorised
certain uses, they cannot undo that grant. But they might offer it in
their own site with different terms, so users might not know that they
have more permissions directly from you.

Regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
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