[sdiy] Thomas White's MFOS sequencer in a thru-you vid.

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 5 Mar 2009, at 17:50, John Mahoney wrote:

> At 12:22 PM 3/5/2009, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>> It was my understanding that the terms of use for youtube mean that
>> material posted there is regarded as in the public domain, so he can
>> do what he likes with it.
>> If you post it on youtube, it's fair game.
>
> I don't believe that my posting a copy of, say, a Bob Moog movie  
> would place that movie into the public domain.

No, definitely not. You can't give away rights that you don't have!

> How this affects content that is posted by the copyright holder is  
> another story, I guess.

I wasn't quite right about YouTube. For the record, Youtube's terms  
of service (TOS) say:
8.2 You retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions,  
but you are required to grant limited licence rights to YouTube and  
other Website users. These are described in paragraph 10 of these  
Terms (Rights you licence).

The relevant part of paragraph 10 is:

10.1 When you upload or post a User Submission to YouTube, you grant:

...to each user of the Website, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty- 
free, licence to access your User Submissions through the Website,  
and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of,  
display and perform such User Submissions to the extent permitted by  
the functionality of the Website and under these Terms.

So it's not in the public domain, and you *do* retain copyright, but  
any YouTube user is entitled by the TOS to "prepare derivative works"  
of any user submissions.

But anyway, who wants to be derivative? We're all going for  
originality, right?!

T.