Protect Your Videos
A good friend of mine has had her YouTube videos "stolen" and reposted by others (at least two others), and was informed that her videos were part of a DVD that's going around in Brazil. I make the assumption that the DVD was "for sale" and not just copied and traded amongst friends, but I do not know for certain.
What I do know is that, like high quality photos, watermarking your videos no longer sounds like a bad idea.
There are lots of products out there, though most of the ones I found, you have to pay for.
VidLogo
Do you want to add Your or your Company Logo to any video? Use VidLogo to modify video files and add logos and video watermarks. Use animated logo or AVI logo for videos like a TV sign in one of the corners of screen.
VidLogo supports AVI, BMP, JPEG graphic formats for logos. True Alpha in video is fuly supported!
This software [apparently] has a trial version that does not have a time restriction on it. I have not tried this software, but have read this on a number of sites.
Video Watermark Factory
A full-featured yet easy-to-use software that allows placing a digital watermark or logo or text over an existing video in the batch mode. Watermarks can be used for protection or adding comments to your movies. You may impose watermark on a whole video file or on a specified section of the movie.
For images, I like ImageWaterMarker, by CodeElite. It's free and easy :)
We, the viewers of the incredible YouTube videos all of you fans share, appreciate the time you take to capture and upload the videos. Hopefully one of these tools will be useful (and not too pricey) for you.
If anyone out there uses something different, and really likes it, please let me know about it so I can pass it along! Thanks in advance...
~ Hath
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I read about this too. She needs to do something to protect her stuff. I can't believe someone would do that. That really takes the cake. Then there is some of us that just really enjoy them.
Thanks Hath. It's a little bit disconcerting when folks just flagrantly disrespect the YouTube terms of use.
I don't think this guy actually realized these had already been posted on YT, but maybe that's just the Pollyanna in me.
At any rate -- thanks for the links -- will def be checking these out before posting anything from Dallas or Tulsa....
Best,
~Fiction Mistress
http://thefictionmistress.blogspot.com
www.youtube.com/fictionmistress
So it's definitely NOT okay to take someone's videos and "redistribute" them, but it's just fine to take a lossless audio recording shared in a small group, degrade it to MP3 and then post it on THIS site?
For the record, I think what's happened to Sam's videos is wrong. But what was done with the recording was just as wrong.
Something to think about perhaps.
Wow, and I thought the anti-gay church post would have brought out the hate.
Anon (though I think I know who you are, K):
It's not okay (in my book anyway) to take someone else's videos and post them as your own. It's ABSOLUTELY NOT okay (yes I'm yelling at you) to sell someone else's work and make a profit off of it. I don't care if you're selling youtube videos or a bootleg you made at a concert. Sharing is okay, selling is wrong. That's all I'm saying.
All I did with the recording I received (with no background or instructions to keep private I might add) was to share it with other fans. I did not charge for it. I did not take credit for finding, recording, or cutting it.
Not once did you send me an email explaining where the recording came from, or asking me to remove it. Nope, you decided instead to be snarky. Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can catch more flies with honey than with shit?
Something to think about perhaps.
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