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Title: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: leaf on March 23, 2009, 03:11
Sean made an interesing blog post about an iStock contributer whose exclusive video application was rejected because they had one video on Vimeo.  iStock said Vimeo has a royalty free license on all videos uploaded to their site.  Sean Locke took a little dive into the terms of service and,.. quite right they were..

Here is the blog post
[Sean Locke Digital Imagery (http://seanlockedigitalimagery.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/vimeocom-rights-grab/)]
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on March 23, 2009, 06:04
Thanks leaf.  Carolyn Wright seemed to agree that it looks like a grab as well: http://photoattorney.com/
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: MikLav on March 23, 2009, 08:19
How is it with youtube? Anybody checked yet?
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on March 23, 2009, 08:28
It's more restrictive.  Just to the youtube business usages (including their promotion and such)...

"However, by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels."
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: stokfoto on March 23, 2009, 09:46
Thank you for posting this leaf  that is very important to know.
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: MikLav on March 23, 2009, 11:08
yeah indeed thanks for posting that. I noticed more and more posts recently pointing to vimeo instead of youtube, but with that discovery we need to be cautious!
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: taavet on March 24, 2009, 04:02
Yikes!
I am exclusive videographer in istock and i plan to make showreel and upload it to vimeo. So-if i upload any of my clips to vimeo, i am immediately violating my exclusivity contract with istock?
So if i want to expose my showreel where i should upload it without violating my exclusivity contract?
I guess i have to add BIG nasty watermark on the clip aswell.

Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: null on March 24, 2009, 04:24
I am exclusive videographer in istock and i plan to make showreel and upload it to vimeo. So-if i upload any of my clips to vimeo, i am immediately violating my exclusivity contract with istock?

Yes. Be grateful to Leaf for warning about this.
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: taavet on March 24, 2009, 04:29
I am exclusive videographer in istock and i plan to make showreel and upload it to vimeo. So-if i upload any of my clips to vimeo, i am immediately violating my exclusivity contract with istock?

Yes. Be grateful to Leaf for warning about this.

Yep, it thanks for warning.
And big watermark wont help, too?
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: null on March 24, 2009, 04:44
And big watermark wont help, too?

Why don't you ask this on the istock forum? They are the only ones that can answer.
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: taavet on March 24, 2009, 04:51
I will.
I'll let you know the answer.
Title: Re: Vimeo has a royalty free license on all your videos
Post by: leaf on March 24, 2009, 09:39
I am exclusive videographer in istock and i plan to make showreel and upload it to vimeo. So-if i upload any of my clips to vimeo, i am immediately violating my exclusivity contract with istock?

Yes. Be grateful to Leaf for warning about this.

Or Sean for finding it!