We're finally doing it - putting some vids on YouTube

[maidavids.livejournal.com]

Paul has been finally convinced that the new YouTube policies that give ad money to copyright holders makes it safe enough to finally try putting some videos up.  We just got the channel up and are still rank innocents in all this.  Don't know if we're screwing anything up, and all suggestions greatly recommended.

Some vids can't go up, like Don Henley's "Boys of Summer," but I'm grateful that some seem to be acceptable to them.

So please make suggestions, give advice and encouragement, and recommend videos that HAVE to be up there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKo6Ll07wmk8TeGx9PShukg/playlists

http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/index.htm

Best,
Mary

Mary Van Deusen

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[yinetime.livejournal.com]

If you haven't used
https://www.youtube.com/music_policies yet, it's great for being able to tell ahead of time which songs are banned in which countries! (or which songs you're not allowed to use on youtube in general)
As for visual content, they've been edited yourself so I've never had a copyright problem! The only problem may arise if you upload full scenes, which I doubt you will.

I upload all my videos to youtube - that's my only platform. So I find it very safe. I'm not sure what your worries are, but if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them! (Or at least try to!)

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The other places to upload vids that Youtube won't accept

Critical Commons (you need to apply for an account)
Ex: http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/starlady/clips/galaxyrise

Vimeo (put them under password and then create a "placeholder" link on AO3.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/7791703

in fact if you create a placeholder "page" on AO3, it will create a stable link and if you ever have to swap out vids due to takedown, you only have to update the link in one place.

[maidavids.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about any of that, so those are great suggestions. My mind still isn't clean, but it's getting a little less furry. My thanks. Mary

[maidavids.livejournal.com]

That's a great suggestion! Hadn't heard of that. We had one Dr Who video blocked for a specific sequence of dinosaurs. Didn't understand but just deleted the video. Otherwise, it's just been audio for us, too. I've always been afraid of visibility because I have so many videos. 662, as I remember. Star Trek alone is currently 113 videos. I tend to keep my head down because of that. But having ad money going to the copyright owners seems brilliant, so I'm excited to pop up and try it. It's also giving us a good overview of just how much destruction we've had over time as our systems degraded. When we were short on space we deleted MOV files and now the old system is going into a coma and it's hard to imagine living long enough to get new MOVs out of the old projects. I'll keep the videos up on our website so they can be downloaded, but I like that they can be just played on YouTube. We've rented an entire computer for years on which we keep our website, but we couldn't afford the download ourselves. But it does solve worries about other users affecting us.

Thanks for the good advice. Mary

[yinetime.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one thing I'll say about youtube is there is no permanence. Copyright policies change all the time, so that link I gave you updates every few months. Definitely a good idea to keep your videos on your own website!

[cosmicviolet.livejournal.com]

Just a thought, but I think a lot of people use Vimeo as a backup in case Youtube mutes the audio or takes down their videos entirely. As it's a site more geared towards video producers than Youtube is, they seem to be more lenient in what's allowed, and as the above poster says, it will also allow you to password protect your videos. So that might be something for you to consider. Or, you could put your videos up as unlisted on Youtube, so that only people with the direct link are able to view it and it's not searchable. I've done that with a few embarrassing videos I've made for class projects in school.