Streamyo Supports Copyright Laws.
At Streamyo, we staunchly support copyright laws. Our mission and business is firmly rooted in the idea that artists deserve to control and be rewarded for their intellectual property. We screen every video that is submitted to our system in an effort to promote legality and to police obvious copyright infringement, and we respond promptly to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) content takedown requests.
Please send correspondence to:
Streamyo, LLC.
Attn: DMCA Violation
Fax: 484-991-3688
Email: contact@streamyo.com
We also believe strongly in the freedoms provided by the doctrine of Fair Use under US copyright law and to comparable protections provided under the copyright laws in various other jurisdictions. We understand that we are living in a remix culture and we support an open media environment. US copyright law was created with the intent to support artists' creativity - by protecting artists' originality and by allowing artists to build appropriately on the creations of others - and so was Streamyo.
For more information on Fair Use and other copyright issues, please check out these resources:
• Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW - Entertaining and easy to read comic by Duke Law.
• Copyright and Fair Use - from Stanford University Libraries.
• Podcasting Legal Guide - from Creative Commons.
• Copyright and Fair Use - from the Center for Social media.
The downloadable PDF for documentary filmmakers is especially useful.
You Maintain All Rights In Your Content.
It's our goal to give you, the artist, as much control over your work as possible. There are a few things we need you to agree to in order to allow us to add your video to the network - to share it and monetize it. When you join Streamyo, you agree to our Member Agreement. And now for an English translation of some key points:
• You retain ownership of your video. Streamyo may host and share your video only for as long as you leave it up on our site and only via the distribution channels you choose. Find out more about our various distribution channels.
• Streamyo will not alter your video in any way other than what is required to share it and monetize it on our network. In other words, we may transcode your video so it can be viewed across our network and of course, we'll attach the advertising to it, but we will not edit or change your artistic creation.
• Streamyo may use your video commercially, splitting pay per view and ad revenue with you according to the member agreement and any Streamyo affiliates who help to spread your video virally across the network. This is the only way Streamyo and Streamyo members can make money from your work.
The New Internet Pays You For Your Work.
By uploading your video to Streamyo, you are joining our network of Affiliates and sponsors who are eager to spread your video as virally as possible. In order to enable the free and open sharing of Streamyo videos, we're working with with Creative Commons to provide the default copyright license to Streamyo videos.
The default license attached to your video is the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license, which basically means this:
• Viewers are free to copy and share your video as long as they attribute credit to you as the creator.
• Viewers may not make money off your video. Note: if the viewer is also a Streamyo member and shares your video as an affiliate, the right to earn 20% of the ad revenue is built into the Streamyo member agreement. Outside of that arrangement, this license means that no one can lawfully profit from your video without your consent.
• Viewers may not edit or alter your video without your consent.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization working to "build a reasonable layer of copyright law."
You Can Do What You Want To Do.
You may choose to allow people to interact with your video in other ways. Maybe you want to allow people to use your video in a mash-up or to add it to a compilation DVD. You can do that! The license outlined above is non-exclusive and applies only to the Streamyo version of your video.