Which video sharing sites offer the best filmmaker-friendly licenses?
Written by Nic Wistreich | 15 May 2009 Posted in news – Internet Apologies for the quiet around here lately – I’ve been completely emerged in a family health crisis. I hope to pick things up in the next few days. Meantime here’s some suprising news (by way of BoingBoing) from Markus Weiland, who has compared the license agreements from the main video sharing sites. Netribution’s (until now) prefered site Vimeo comes off the worst: “By submitting your Submission to VIMEO, you hereby grant VIMEO […] a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) and transferable license (with a right to create derivative works) to use, copy, transmit or otherwise distribute, perform, modify, incorporate into other works, publicly perform and display your Submission or any portion thereof, in or through any medium, […]. VIMEO shall be entitled to unrestricted use of any Submission for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without co
