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4 million Creative Commons videos that anyone anywhere can use for free.

by I.M.Retired
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Since the Creative Commons video library launch on YouTube a year ago, you’ve added more than 40 years worth of video to the mix. Anyone, anywhere can edit, build on and republish the library’s videos for free thanks to the Creative Commons Attribution license, otherwise known as CC BY. YouTube Now Has The Most Creative Commons Videos In The World
From another site:

Anyone can access this library and download a video using the YouTube editor. The user enters his password and choose the URL of the video you are interested in and download it as material for his new job. http://www.deltaworld.org/technology...nse-in-a-year/
With so many people using videos in their Internet Marketing businesses, I'm wondering how many forum members have actually downloaded and repurposed any of the videos detailed above?

Or do you post videos of your own with a Creative Commons license? And if you do, would you be interested in sharing links to your work?

I'm still quite new to video creation, so am quite interested in hearing from other Warriors about how they edit and use other's work such as the videos mentioned above.

I'm thinking that these CC videos would be a great help for someone creating promo videos for customers, websites, affiliate products and just about anything else you can think of.

I have mastered some basic video creation techniques under my belt, but repurposing the work of others is a whole new ball game for me, so comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Even a new WSO perhaps?
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  • Profile picture of the author OldLodgeSkins
    Hi,

    Did you check the videos themselves?
    If you're not familiar with CC licenses, you need to be careful: the fact a content (whatever the type of the content, video or other) is published under a CC license doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it.

    Example: CC BY-NC-ND => BY = attribution, you must mention the author's name, NC = Non Commercial (so you can't include it in your squeeze page for example), ND = No Derivatives - you can't modify it.

    Each CC content comes with rules like this, it entirely depends on what the author has chosen. More details: About The Licenses - Creative Commons

    So it's possible you could find some CC videos that you can both modify and include in your commercial work. But you've got to be careful and choose them well, the simple fact they're using a CC license isn't enough by itself.

    Seb.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      I.M.,

      I'm not a seasoned video person at all due to my untechieness, lol!

      However, I found Kurt's product to be awesome for what you're asking for as well as a ton more use useful tips and strategies.

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author toasttoast
    The trouble is, most videos on youtube aren't in any niche that makes good money. And the creative commons videos are mostly in niches entirely separate from spending money. It'd be tough to find a video in there that I could use to promote anything, but it's rather cheap to just have videos made to promote things. So I go with that option when I feel a video is needed.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kurt
      Originally Posted by OldLodgeSkins View Post

      Hi,

      Did you check the videos themselves?
      If you're not familiar with CC licenses, you need to be careful: the fact a content (whatever the type of the content, video or other) is published under a CC license doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it.

      Example: CC BY-NC-ND => BY = attribution, you must mention the author's name, NC = Non Commercial (so you can't include it in your squeeze page for example), ND = No Derivatives - you can't modify it.

      Each CC content comes with rules like this, it entirely depends on what the author has chosen. More details: About The Licenses - Creative Commons

      So it's possible you could find some CC videos that you can both modify and include in your commercial work. But you've got to be careful and choose them well, the simple fact they're using a CC license isn't enough by itself.

      Seb.

      It doesn't matter what all the CC licenses are. What matters is the license they agree to when they upload a video to Youtube.

      And when using these videos on Youtube, Youtube even adds the attribution automatically.


      Originally Posted by toasttoast View Post

      The trouble is, most videos on youtube aren't in any niche that makes good money. And the creative commons videos are mostly in niches entirely separate from spending money. It'd be tough to find a video in there that I could use to promote anything, but it's rather cheap to just have videos made to promote things. So I go with that option when I feel a video is needed.
      Not true at all. There are plenty of Creative Commons videos on Youtube about marketable topics.

      For those interested, I posted a thread about this topic in the War Room:
      The Super Fast, Super Easy Way to Steal Youtube Videos for Fun and Profit (legally)
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      Tons of FREE Public Domain content you can use to make your own content, PLR, digital and POD products.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by OldLodgeSkins View Post

        Example: CC BY-NC-ND => BY = attribution, you must mention the author's name, NC = Non Commercial (so you can't include it in your squeeze page for example), ND = No Derivatives - you can't modify it.

        Seb.
        Even the term "non-commercial" is open to interpretation.

        Using your example...

        > To many using the NC license, it's fine if you use their content in your squeeze page as long as you meet the other licensing terms. Just because you are using the content to make money does not strictly make it a "commercial" use.

        > Take that same squeeze page using the same content and try to sell it as a template or include it as part of another product, and you have a horse of an entirely different color. This would definitely be a commercial use.
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  • Profile picture of the author Walt Hass
    I have used YTs creative commons videos in the past. This is a great tip and something I need to start doing again. Not sure why I stopped? LOL

    Thanks for the reminder.
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