How To Use Creative Commons Youtube Videos

On this folio we describe the two licensing options provided by YouTube for content uploaded to its service, and suggest an additional 3rd option for users wanting more flexibility for their content.

Alternately this content can be viewed as a PDF file: How to – use a CC licence on YouTube (PDF 917KB)

Selection A – The Standard YouTube licence

This licence is 'All Rights Reserved', granting provisions for YouTube to brandish the content, and YouTube'due south visitors to stream the content. This means that the content may be streamed from YouTube but specifically forbids downloading, adaptation, and redistribution, except where otherwise licensed.

When uploading your content to YouTube information technology will automatically use the Standard YouTube licence. You can check this by clicking on Avant-garde Settings and looking at the dropdown box 'License and rights ownership'.

Option B – The YouTube CC BY licence

The Creative Commons, CC By licence gives permission that, so long as the piece of work is attributed, anyone may:

• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the textile
• for any purpose, even commercially.

In order to be eligible to mark your YouTube video with a Creative Eatables licence information technology must consist entirely of content created by you or cleared under the CC By licence. Some examples of such cleared content are:

• Your originally created content.
• Other videos marked with a CC BY licence.
• Videos or other content in the public domain / CC0.

How to check/alter the licence on your YouTube video

When uploading your content to YouTube it will automatically utilize the Standard YouTube licence. If you are logged into your business relationship, you can change this by clicking on the 'Edit Video' push button underneath your video and then clicking on the 'Avant-garde' tab. Click on the dropdown box 'License and rights ownership' and select the 'Creative Eatables – Attribution' option. This will so marker your content every bit CC BY.

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If you have multiple videos on YouTube that y'all would like to change from the Standard licence to the CC Past:

1. Go to the YouTube Studio and make sure you're logged in to your account.
2. Select the video or multiple videos you lot desire to update. A black bar will appear at the top of your video list confirming the number of videos selected and drop-downwardly menus to either 'Edit' the selection or 'Add to playlist'.
3. Click on the 'Edit' drop-down button and select 'Licence & rights management'.
4. This volition then offer the option to select either the Standard YouTube licence or the Creative Commons – Attribution licence. In one case yous've called your licence click on the bluish 'UPDATE VIDEOS' button to the far right of the meridian tab.
5. A box will pop up with the post-obit text "Are you certain? Yous're well-nigh to update the selected videos. Updating your videos is permanent and can't be undone. [Tick box] I sympathise the implications of this action". If you click the tick box you will and so be able to ostend by clicking 'Update Videos'.
6. On the video you can see the licence past expanding the 'Details' department.

Option C – Annotation your preferred licence in the video description

Alternately text can be added to the description of your YouTube video stating additional licensing information you may want to provide.

For example, a number of the videos created for Edinburgh University MOOCs which are placed on YouTube accept been notated with the CC BY-NC-SA licence and include a link to the licence details.

To do this yourself:

1. Go to YouTube.com and make sure yous are logged in.
2. Go to the video you desire to edit and click on the 'Edit Video' push.
3. The screen should already exist open with the 'Basic Info' tab. There will be a box with the title of your video, and underneath this a box for additional description of your video.
4. Click anywhere in the description box and enter the details of the CC licence you would like to employ to your video.

The CC licence used past the University of Edinburgh MOOC team in the case of our example video used in this guide is the Licence: CC-Past-NC-SAhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/past-nc-sa/3.0/

Source: https://open.ed.ac.uk/how-to-guides/adding-a-creative-commons-licence-to-your-resource/applying-a-cc-licence-on-youtube/

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